Example sentences of "see [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We see through jellyfish that are ghostly pale blue outlines in the water .
2 Men and books I see through Nature in the first place …
3 We are already enjoying eternal life , and physical death will merely mean the passing from life , in which we see through a glass darkly , to life when we shall see and know as we are known .
4 Children value perceptive comments , responses and questions on their writing , but they quickly see through perfunctory approval and generalised faint praise .
5 The mystic tears have the effect of distorting the vision so the eyes see through a veil ; but even more is the mind distorted and the interior vision is transfigured .
6 Hopefully , Guitarist readers see through this attempt by Mr.Peavey to re-write tube amp history to include himself .
7 ‘ When I was a child , ’ she said , ‘ I used to think that you could look into anybody 's eyes , anybody 's , and see through them right into their soul .
8 Unless they see through the game , such children grow up to be victims and martyrs themselves .
9 See through his make-up and only transfer the relevant data on to your mental screen .
10 SEE THROUGH THE WINDOW PAINS
11 And it 's pretty obvious that we have — so anybody with any brains will realise that , see through it , and go and buy the proper version . ’
12 Under these conditions the ‘ aperture effect ’ operates , which is that no matter what the true direction of movement of the object through the visual field what you see through the aperture is movement at right angles to the orientation of the edge that is passing across the aperture .
13 As such , they often see through life and social skills training and develop common-sense critiques of the curriculum .
14 There was a long table of scrubbed pine with a tablecloth ( splashed with russet chrysanthemums , the sort of tablecloth you see through the windows of other people 's houses as you walk by at teatime ) folded back to cover crockery set out ready for breakfast , perhaps to keep mice from dirtying the cups .
15 Well , we had to make a better road through the forest , although I see through the window that it 's grown up a bit recently .
16 The foundation for the Kaldor view has been discussed in Lecture 3 , where we brought out its relationship with the company sector and the extent to which individuals see through the corporate veil .
17 The behaviour of the clever is far from complex ; it 's simple , if you see through the glosses .
18 You mean that you see through me , Theda thought .
19 Between them , I see through large holes to moist saffron earth a few feet below .
20 and see through glass what took Eve 's breath away
21 For now we see through a glass , darkly : but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then I shall know even as also I am known . ’ '
22 Yes and then you see through That one 's got a
23 Well , I see through it .
24 see through
25 see through me with a voice of rival , rival calm when she called me in for tea , have a go
26 he 's just put the , he 's got like this see through frost banks foregated
27 In addition , the differences we see between the rhythm measured normally and under constant routine conditions must be due to external causes ( rhythms in our life-style and environment ) .
28 The main differences I see between the shop here and Christian bookshops in Britain are ( a ) that we can order books from an express supplier in the morning and have them in the afternoon , which is very good and ( b ) that there are more books about Israel and the Jews .
29 The conflict which some people see between the Commission 's role in attempting to improve the economic position of Catholics and its neutrality between Protestants and Catholicism is more apparent than real .
30 Nearly all the farmhouses we see between the compact villages of the country between the Yorkshire and the Dorset coasts date from the century 1750–1850 .
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