Example sentences of "and sees " in BNC.
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| 1 | One expects and sees silk stockings or nowadays fish-net tights on made-up hussies with split or very short skirts , or brief frilly knickers , low-necked bodices or tight gaudy corsets , elaborate hair-dos or hats , and so on . |
| 2 | A townscape of nightmare yellows : sky , buildings , furniture , wallpaper , faces — the colour of age , heat , pestilence , bile and jaundice , bruisings and stainings , with a stronger connotation of dirt in Russian than in English ; the colour of the tickets of identification which prostitutes were required to carry ; the colour of Raskolnikov 's ‘ cubbyhole ’ of a room ; and the colour which greets him when he comes to after fainting at the police station and sees a man ‘ holding a yellow glass filled with yellow water ’ . |
| 3 | I suspect that Pound is rueful at best when he looks down and sees us industriously annotating out of Sir Edward Coke Canto 107 , without noticing that the English language is in that canto handled with none of the sensitivity that would make those labours worthwhile . |
| 4 | Dane O'Hara probably still wakes up at night and sees Ferguson oscillating in front of him . |
| 5 | Amersham has a strong position in the European market for radiopharmaceuticals and sees the acquisition of a complementary manufacturing base in North America as improving its chances of supplying the global market for such products . |
| 6 | As a result , Japan now wants revenge and sees peace as the best way of getting its own back . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher has a clear view of her role as Prime Minister and sees herself as an activist rather than an arbitrator in Cabinet disputes or a spokesman for a collective Cabinet view . |
| 8 | If he comes in and sees you like that in the door he 'll have something to say , ’ Maggie said but Sheila slipped back upstairs before she finished . |
| 9 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 10 | The complacent citizen looks up and sees a distant jet 's contrails , whooshing along in impressive white streams . |
| 11 | Now he lifts up his eyes again , and sees the animal that is his son 's salvation , a ram caught in a thicket . |
| 12 | But Moses does not show much faith in God 's willingness to fulfil her duties , and sees death as the only way to find release from his burdens . |
| 13 | But when he comes to the foot of the mountain and sees the worship of the calf for himself , we hear the sound of his anger too , and see him smashing the tablets of stone that he has brought down from the summit inscribed with God 's torah . |
| 14 | House broker County NatWest expects a 36 p.c. rise to £14.4m pre-tax for 1991 and sees £19.3m as attainable this year . |
| 15 | Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) is an American attorney turned corporate pirate , who wo n't find time for his children ( Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott ) and sees no irony in accusing them of childishness . |
| 16 | The RSC has a reduced subscription scheme for members on a career break and sees this as a way of encouraging women to keep in touch whilst looking after young children . |
| 17 | The gentle spirit hears new things and sees new perspectives beyond those of self-interest . |
| 18 | ‘ If the Sergeant arrives and sees our cart gone , is n't that the first thing he 'll think , that he 's got word and bolted ? ’ |
| 19 | Until an old friend comes to visit and sees that the house is crumbling and dying around them and maybe with them . |
| 20 | What differentiates true experiments from non-experimental enquiries is the attempt , either in the laboratory or field , to produce an effect among groups which have been randomly formed ; in the simplest experiment , the researcher deliberately alters the X values of an experimental group , and sees what effect this has on their Y values by comparing them with a control group . |
| 21 | Or my eyes — sees love , and sees love . |
| 22 | When one hears and sees the grids and axes within which the teachers are being encouraged to monitor the progress of each child , it ought to be sufficient to give any sane person pause for thought ! |
| 23 | The author rejects the ‘ myth of reality as external to the human mind ’ and sees the Universe at large as the source of consciousness . |
| 24 | He loves driving , rather than seeing his car as a way of getting him from A to B , and sees his car as a status symbol , and means to power and freedom . |
| 25 | Remote from universal nature , and living by complicated artifice , man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion . |
| 26 | If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him , how can the love of God be in him ? |
| 27 | It is suddenly free of that distinctly ominous presence and sees its opportunity . |
| 28 | Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . |
| 29 | He is stoical ( line 40 ) , and sees that Beaumont 's conception of the castle in the storm is the true image of human life ; further , he welcomes what it tells him ( lines 43 , 45 and 50 ) . |
| 30 | But Branson , 42 , does not want the simulators sitting idle and sees them as a new money-spinner . |