Example sentences of "[pron] they see [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 2 | Town hall chiefs in Birmingham must save £40 million to stay within charge-capping limits , which they see as part of a Tory vendetta . |
| 3 | Woman-centred psychologists are also interested in language and the unconscious , in spite of the misogyny which they see in linguistics and psychoanalysis . |
| 4 | The most coward and yet everybody you spoke to s s thought that was a good thing , because they believed everything they saw on television right until the girl that was the actress that cried on television and said he pulled the plugs out of the incubators for the babies , and she was an actress and yet that was head headline news . |
| 5 | If the bullet-proof vest is unnecessary , Holyfield 's handlers were sufficiently spooked by what they saw on Halloween night to scrap plans to fight in London , especially after the Bruno-style support afforded Lewis . |
| 6 | Its extension would now oblige the left to find new ways of campaigning among party members , because they tended to cast their votes according to what they saw on television . |
| 7 | There was no evidence of a plot and liberals were disgusted by what they saw as panic action by Palmer . |
| 8 | Yet because a prince could now justify his coercive authority by reference to his peace-keeping function , those who failed to obtain what they saw as justice at his court , and who now stood to suffer punishment if they disturbed the peace to vindicate their rights , grew embittered . |
| 9 | The attitude of employers is one of annoyance at what they see as government interference for electoral purposes . |
| 10 | Union campaigners are angry at what they see as government double dealing . |
| 11 | Union campaigners are angry at what they see as government double dealing . |
| 12 | It 's the second time in a week that officers from Thames Valley police have spoken out about what they see as abuse of the judicial system . |
| 13 | THE BBC 's Halloween programme Ghostwatch is proof that viewers do react to what they see on TV . |
| 14 | ( What the NCC calls ‘ the Augusta effect ’ , caused by clubs trying too hard to emulate what they see on TV . ) |
| 15 | In this view , people do not directly act out what they see on screen , but treat porn as a means of wish fulfilment . |
| 16 | Those members of the public who have not had an opportunity to experience contact with the mentally handicapped except in the most superficial way inevitably draw their opinions from the concepts portrayed in the mass media and , above all , from what they see on television . |
| 17 | Lord Merlyn-Rees , a former Labour minister , suggested children are copying what they see on television , while the Conservatives ' Kenneth Baker claimed children faced a moral vacuum and that television and film are at least partly to blame . |
| 18 | Something I notice in England is that people always try to make sense of what they see in theatre . |
| 19 | [ Some ] ha' not the heart to believe anything , But what they see in print . |