Example sentences of "[adv] see [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 2 | He apparently sees Novell as the Grinch who will steal open systems . |
| 3 | So Anne stayed at home , and only saw Diana in the evenings . |
| 4 | He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while . |
| 5 | Keeper Neville Southall , the most capped keeper in Welsh history , believes the Belgians will be scared just seeing Giggs among the substitutes . |
| 6 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 7 | I had not seen Leeds at the time ’ ? |
| 8 | She had not seen Angela since the weekend before the one on which she had disappeared , but had spoken to her twice on the telephone . |
| 9 | Having just seen Topper at the Princess the week before , I had all I needed to complete my erotic evaporation fantasies . |
| 10 | It was agreed that they would not see Minton for a while . |
| 11 | Her friends on the bridge saw the boat , but they did not see Anne under the tree . |
| 12 | Many Christians do not see Jesus as a sacrifice in the same way . |
| 13 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 14 | I ca n't say I 've ever seen Jeff with a geranium stuck behind his ear ! ’ |
| 15 | Patrick had always seen Jane as a maid , she walked , talked and acted as a maid . |
| 16 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 17 | Except that she could still see Julius in every drawing . |
| 18 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 19 | But when I pushed open the gate into the yard on my return , I always saw Jean-Claude at the window . |
| 20 | For all its humiliating decline , Khan still saw Delhi as a vibrant and sophisticated city , full of glamour and intrigue ; the beauty of its palaces and shrines , he thought , was rivalled only by the strangeness of the city 's society and its dazzling complement of poets , dancers and mystics . |
| 21 | For at the same time they still see no alternative to Tayif , and still see Aoun as the one great impediment in its way . |
| 22 | Roll up , roll up to see Charles with a roll-up ! |
| 23 | But the man was a romantic and probably saw Steve as an obstacle he might have to overcome . |
| 24 | Surely after three years with the Glens you have realised that we supporters also see Linfield as a superior team with superior resources . |
| 25 | Dexter was glad they had come back to see Lancaster at the end of the day . |
| 26 | Foreigners have too often seen Japan as a monolithic society where individualism is frowned upon and conformity all important , where the tendency is towards harmony and consensus and a healthy element of conflict decidedly absent , and where the role of the group is all-pervasive . |
| 27 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 28 | Boss Ian Porterfield hinted he now sees Newton as a partner for the hapless Robert Fleck . |
| 29 | Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor . |
| 30 | You have n't seen Alexander for a long time , have you ? |