Example sentences of "[adj] to see [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that pleasure was tinged with sadness because his mother , Joanna , is n't alive to see him in a role he might have been born to play . |
| 2 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 3 | But it is also possible to see it as an attempt to formulate the way in which the sliding incompatibility of the two can only be perceived through an ‘ internal distantiation ’ in which the problem of that ‘ relation ’ is enacted by its relation , in the sense of the telling of a story — which is how we get history . |
| 4 | Dr Mackintosh had left for the weekend , but Dr Lange , the literary one , would be free to see him in the morning . |
| 5 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 6 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 7 | Is it adequate to see it as an accommodation to existing educational structures , as Layton does ? |
| 8 | Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh . |
| 9 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 10 | The fact that ‘ She ’ appears to those privileged to see her as a veiled figure and that her lustrous orbs , dazzling limbs and perfect ankles are revealed with tantalising slowness , has a rather different effect on today 's readers than it no doubt had when the book was first published , very nearly a century ago , in 1887 , to be greeted with a storm of ecstasy or alternatively of appalled disapproval , which lasted for many decades . |
| 11 | ‘ I was glad to see her at the pictures with you , ’ Anne said . |
| 12 | I could tell Gillian and Stuart were n't thrilled to see me at the airport . |
| 13 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
| 14 | ‘ My nan waited up till half past three to see us on The Chart Show , ’ says guitarist Rat shaking a tousled head . |
| 15 | ‘ My nan waited up till half past three to see us on The Chart Show , ’ says guitarist Rat shaking a tousled head . |
| 16 | HMG 's total budget is P£4,000 per year , so maybe you should multiply all my figures by about three to see it from a minister 's perspective : the poor dears are trying to run the country on poverty-line wages . |
| 17 | Reading the plan it is hard to see it as the centrepiece of what was billed as the world 's first green election , in September 1989 . |
| 18 | In this issue it was great to see you on the streets , showing people united in the fight against growing racism . |
| 19 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
| 20 | Well it 's good to see them in the bath anyway having a good good old splash about , you know ? |
| 21 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 22 | But folded within it was a handwritten note ‘ So good to see you at the library , albeit briefly . |
| 23 | It was good to see you at the DoE Green College Sustainability Seminar the other day . |
| 24 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 25 | Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time . |
| 26 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 27 | Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter . |
| 28 | The stairs were cold and draughty and the light was n't good , but she 'd placed herself so that the agency 's receptionist would be able to see her through the glass-panelled door if she should happen to glance up . |
| 29 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 30 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |