Example sentences of "[adv] see [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cobalt 's mouth curved in his mischievous smile although she could only see her reflection in his lenses . |
| 2 | I think I 'd better see you face to face . |
| 3 | He finished the glass of Kir and decided that he had better see his controller in person . |
| 4 | PATIENTS so short-sighted they could scarcely see their car from 25 yards can now see well enough without glasses or contact lenses to read its number plate . |
| 5 | ‘ If you should see me die , you will not see me die in that manner … |
| 6 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 7 | The clerk was instructed to inform Mr. Johnson however that the guardians ‘ did not see their way to continuing supplying champagne ’ . |
| 8 | In general lay members did not see their role as an enabling one and do not play a particularly active role in hearings . |
| 9 | If you can not see your way to doing this , I regret that I shall have to suggest to the Parish Council that they consider moving this account to another bank . |
| 10 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |
| 11 | The present arrangements , under which a defending barrister will often not see his client until the morning of the trial , is unsatisfactory in the extreme . |
| 12 | But Birch is a modest man , despite his immodest ideas , and would not see his book as any more than a starter . |
| 13 | His friends could not see his face in the dark . |
| 14 | He would not see his bride before the wedding night so all sorts of pictures could float in the mind . |
| 15 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll just see my father to a taxi and come back for you . ’ |
| 17 | I could just see my face in it . |
| 18 | Ca n't you just see your mother in a pink floppy hat with cherries on it ? |
| 19 | File it alongside ‘ I 'll put you in motion pictures ’ , ‘ I could immortalise you in paint ’ , ‘ I can just see your neck in marble ’ , etc , etc . |
| 20 | One such gillie , towards the end of his career , carried out his duties more by instinct than by reason : he had always been shortsighted , but , nearing retirement , he could hardly see his hand in front of his face . |
| 21 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 22 | He could still see her painting in the garden . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I can still see my mother at the urn . ’ |
| 24 | When the Orientals have a UK market share that justifies their building factories on your soil , you will gradually see their way of life coming into your homes . |
| 25 | An exhibtion of his work is on at the Midlands Arts Gallery and you can also see his work at the Malvern Festival at the end of May . |
| 26 | So although agencies can now see what sort of approach they should be making in women 's development policy , and are looking at their lives in their entirety — not just as baby machines , the agencies are restricted by the IMF and World Bank conditions in what they can do . |
| 27 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 28 | Er and you know to really see what kind of erm design , what design can do to the actual living situation . |
| 29 | I nearly fell over him and he turned round , but I did n't really see his face in the dark , or if I did , I blocked it out I was so scared . |
| 30 | Its applicability to the eighteenth-century novel seems , on the other hand , to be less questionable , and one can equally well see its relevance to twentieth-century writers like John Fowles . |