Example sentences of "[vb past] see them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 2 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 4 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 5 | Hundreds of flowers she could n't name , she 'd seen them in her grandmother 's garden , in her mother 's garden , in neglected gardens all over . |
| 6 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 7 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 8 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 9 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 10 | Which is going to disappoint an awful lot of women who flocked to see them in town a year ago . |
| 11 | Jonna was not slow to remind them that he and Maisie hoped to see them at their wedding , due in a few weeks ' time at Easter . |
| 12 | One day they were told that a police officer wished to see them in connection with the charges already preferred . |
| 13 | Under the rules of 1865 they remained responsible for their publications after they had seen them into print . |
| 14 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 15 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 16 | She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle . |
| 17 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |
| 18 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 19 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 20 | No one had seen them for days . |
| 21 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 22 | He had seen them through the gates . |
| 23 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 24 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 25 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 26 | He had seen them from far away , and had come to help them , one of them in particular . |
| 27 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 28 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 29 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 30 | Leslie was aware that most people " can not Read at all " , but said he had seen them in the streets " Gather together about one that can Read " and listen to a newspaper being read aloud . |