Example sentences of "[pron] see [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see only the face of Siobhan , lovely and awake in her hospital bed , her introductions and information , her Jimmy Shawns , her Rorys and Frankie Mulligans and Patsy McCauleys , and her words , Do you believe , do you believe in God ? |
| 2 | I see only the seal profile , the rounded and compressed nose , one brown and masked eye . |
| 3 | I see now the inadequacy of this explanation ; but , apart from the fact that at that age one 's loyalties are defended with more than usual zeal , my conviction , in the Oxford of that time , was that Collingwood was the only alternative to linguistic philosophy . |
| 4 | You see historically the campesino has been most exploited . |
| 5 | You see well the point was when you pick 'em up erm we had a sm we had a big boat , what we called hanger boat , a very heavy boat and that used to have a wooden so therefore we used to pull it up by hand and pull it ove on a little barrel with a hand power that 's what we used to do and once we got the anchor in board we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then rerun it again right on to the mud and on the anchor again . |
| 6 | ‘ You realize , ’ he said as they ascended , ‘ that if you 're ever tempted to breathe a word of what you see here the Society will eradicate you so quickly and so thoroughly your mother wo n't even know you existed ? ’ |
| 7 | As we can see rather graphically here , the difference in if you stand back against that wall if you would very kindly , erm you see here the difference in level between nineteen ninety |
| 8 | Not only that you see alright the mortgage rates might go up but I mean if you 're working your wages are gon na go up Stuart . |
| 9 | See I want to get the same sort of material though as what the other liners , I want to stick the two liners together to make all one great big pond you see right the way across the garden but the other pond might be about two foot deep , this one 's gon na go down |
| 10 | But the other one of the is a nine o'clock delivery in the morning you see so the rest of the load must be there you see . |
| 11 | Through the grease on the window you see only the house next door . |
| 12 | We see here the way in which battle is often joined between theist and atheist . |
| 13 | If we then look at paragraph five , that 's the first page of appendix two , we see here The appeal site has a long planning history . |
| 14 | We see here the importance of Parliament as an expression of ‘ self-correcting democracy ’ . |
| 15 | It is therefore in the age of modern popular politics after 1789 , the age of movement towards democracy , that we see also the development of an opposition to democracy with a more sophisticated theoretical basis than any since the time of Plato . |
| 16 | If we think we see even the glimmering of an original , important , and scientifically sound message then we will give authors the benefit of the doubt and send the paper to an external referee . |
| 17 | Even as we admire the sharpness , the delicacy , of the delineation , of this self-sacrificing old maid , that lowly and tormented man , this uncertain child — even as we admire , we see too the hopelessness that these so powerfully suggest . |
| 18 | There are occasional species which apparently mate for life ( though imagine the opportunities for adultery on all those long-distance migratory swims and night flights ) ; but on the whole we see merely the exercise of power , dominance and sexual convenience . |
| 19 | They see only the work that is still to be done . |
| 20 | But in chapter 16 Dathan and Abiram make clear that they see only the prospect of eventual death in the wilderness if Moses continues as their leader , and in chapter 14 death in battle seems only too imminent . |