Example sentences of "[adv] see them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like most birdwatchers , I have only seen them in pictures -invariably in supremely elegant poses , their long , thin beaks delicately probing the water for weeds . |
| 2 | He had only seen them in books and wondered how something as light and puffy as steam could pull such heavy carriages . |
| 3 | " I 'd better see them on their way . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's difficult to work out somebody 's background when you only see them on the ski-slopes or fooling around après-ski . |
| 5 | Because of the mystique — and maybe the image — celebrities and VIPs are quite daunting to those who usually only see them from a distance . |
| 6 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |
| 7 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |
| 8 | You could just see them at low water and er that was one of the danger points but I 've never seen ships coming close to Skerrymor at all . |
| 9 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 10 | You can just see them from where you stand now ; they are tantalizingly inaccessible to the public . |
| 11 | Their boots scraped on the floor ; we could just see them from beneath our tarpaulin . |
| 12 | By the time Woolley arrived in her ward she was turning into a slaughterhouse attendant : she no longer saw them as men but as damaged stock ; if they screamed it was not a sign of pain but a signal to fetch a doctor . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |
| 14 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 15 | One always sees them at the airport in Geneva — they 've got a numbered bank account in Switzerland |
| 16 | However after today 's result Morland staff say no-one will ever see them as an easy target . |
| 17 | You would probably see them on front doors and perhaps some of you have already got them , where about a third of the way up is a little brass plate , and it 's an integral lock that 's fitted into the door . |
| 18 | She hated to be made to think in this way ; but there were some things you had to think of with your mind , when you could n't straightforwardly see them with your hands , to deal with them then and there . |
| 19 | Dublin regarded the revelations with dismay , but also saw them as an opportunity to renew and step up its criticisms of the regiment . |
| 20 | Yes this is probably see them at night time . |
| 21 | Select committees have had substantial coverage , but all the evidence suggests — and this is my own impression , having served or attended many committees over the years and now seeing them on television — that , with a few minor modifications , the ways these committees work is little changed . |
| 22 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 23 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 24 | Managers do not really see them as part of the assets of the unit . |
| 25 | In an affected small bowel you will see the grey background with these tiny little curved rods present the whole area of the er , the villi is covered by the organisms which are er stuck down effectively by the processes which you ca , you ca n't really see them in the transmission micrograph , but they are attached to specific receptors on the surface of the entrocite membrane . |
| 26 | Though we children heard a lot about my mother 's nerves , we never really saw them in action . |
| 27 | To human eyes many of the body markings appear to be beautiful and highly conspicuous , but this is because we so often see them in artificial environments where their camouflage quality fails to show itself . |
| 28 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 29 | Not that acers insist on an acid woodland soil , not even for the most exotic species with unpronounceable Japanese names ; I have even seen them as cut plants on patios . |
| 30 | I 've even seen them in house gutters . |