Example sentences of "[adv] see [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 3 | To John Baxter this was rather ‘ solemn mock-Soviet montage ’ but others have more rightly seen it as a very effective expression of that energy which ordinary people had in abundance but which the America of 1934 so tragically left untapped . |
| 4 | In the situations where the actor does not desire the result , but merely sees it as a foreseeable outcome of his conduct , the House of Lords has said that there is merely evidence from which the tribunal of fact can infer that he intends . |
| 5 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 6 | He would only see it as a weakness to be used against her , or worse , as an attempt to ingratiate herself . |
| 7 | He … he only sees me as a … a dear friend . |
| 8 | I only saw him for a moment , but my blood seemed to freeze . |
| 9 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 10 | I only saw her for a day or two . ’ |
| 11 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 12 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 13 | Because of the mystique — and maybe the image — celebrities and VIPs are quite daunting to those who usually only see them from a distance . |
| 14 | But oh , Nicodemus if you only see him as a teacher you only see the minute part of me ! |
| 15 | That 's how I think of it : as my home , even though I only see it for a short time every year . |
| 16 | ‘ But they obviously see it as an important matter of principle , so I ought not to stand in their way . ’ |
| 17 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 18 | I should think it probably would , but I do n't think that 's any reason for not starting it and for not seeing it as a major goal , because after all erm the travel market , as we 've heard , is extremely competitive erm people really do vote with their feet and if we do n't then people wo n't come here , and now we really have got a fight on our hands to encourage people to come here , particularly from North America . |
| 19 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 20 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 21 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 22 | She had not seen him for a month . |
| 23 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 24 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 25 | ‘ He does not see her as a woman , ’ Sydel said . |
| 26 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
| 27 | ‘ I do not see him as a killer . |
| 28 | However desirable it is that they receive training , many do not see it as a practical proposition . |
| 29 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 30 | It is a powerful alkaloidal poison , but the Zande do not see it as an ordinary poison but as an autonomous mystical power capable of issuing decisions which are taken very seriously indeed . |