Example sentences of "[pron] see [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might , thus , fantasise the death of someone seen as a threat , or imagine oneself as possessing enormous fame or wealth . |
| 2 | Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon . |
| 3 | ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’ |
| 4 | I saw on a church bill-board recently the familiar statement , ‘ Wise men still seek Christ ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 6 | Later , I saw by a date in a book that she was not yet eighteen . |
| 7 | The President accepted his scrap of twisted limb with a gracious smile and said , on Susan 's advice , ‘ I am delighted to receive this gift which I see as a symbol of the cultural and commercial interdependence of the planets . |
| 8 | But it can lead to trouble : many of the problem children I see as a child psychologist are ‘ precious ’ . |
| 9 | I 've started to talk to Alan about what I see as a lack of , of management time erm in this division . |
| 10 | The limitations are the lack of footswitching between the clean/crunch and OD1/OD2 modes , and that I see as a drawback ( unless you find you prefer one or the other and stick to it ) . |
| 11 | WHEN I read the opening words of your jazz columnist Solly Lipsitz on August 26 , ‘ As this will be my final Thursday column ’ , I felt that I should express my feelings at what I see as a matter which will be of deep concern to the entire jazz fraternity in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . |
| 13 | The computer asks " What would you see at a football match ? " |
| 14 | Owing to what she sees as a lack of gratitude , she threatens to refuse to continue with the caring tasks . |
| 15 | As she looks in its direction , she sees in a way she has never seen before : |
| 16 | Although a lifelong Labour voter , influenced by the poverty she saw as a teacher , Mrs Hughes spoke of how Mrs Thatcher ‘ gave me a lovely tour of No 10 and I thought she was such a nice person ’ . |
| 17 | And then she saw with a shock that Jan was back . |
| 18 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 19 | I 'd like to see the blue tits come out you know there was a programme on television and you saw inside a box of a blue tit , a nesting box , right inside . |
| 20 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 21 | But that 's an average week you see for a lot of people . |
| 22 | You see for a start we need to decide to we need it . |
| 23 | Those obviously include all the further education colleges that do the basic um and the basic things and then the H N C H N D it gives you the open learning things which includes then the private sector people communicate and all sorts of other agencies , erm it depends really what you see as a beginner , do you mean a beginner in the communications field in its entirety , or do you mean a beginner as an in-house industrial editor or a freelancer by definition a beginner is not likely to be a freelancer ? |
| 24 | Decide on the changes you see as a priority . |
| 25 | The staff ca n't wander off you see on a night . |
| 26 | They just put it on you see with a brush and it was a paste you see , all over the coach , and then they had a hose and they washed all that X mover off you see , the X mover was an acid and it ate into the you see , bodywork . |
| 27 | You paid a small fee you see or a small charge to have this and the your mother used to put the the dough in the tin and er a little s bit of paper with the name on it , you see with a name on it and that used to go in to the oven . |
| 28 | So he taught me to drive see and It was much easier then you see with a car . |
| 29 | They had to give it a quarter turn you see with a spanner . |
| 30 | I 'm sure you have men you think of in that way too , people you see from a distance and you think they are angels , or at least heroes . |