Example sentences of "[adv] see [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 2 | He could n't go on seeing her in the circumstances . |
| 3 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 4 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 5 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |
| 6 | ‘ I have only seen her at the funeral . |
| 7 | I suddenly saw her as the shuttlecock in the game her husband is playing with his inamorata . |
| 8 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 9 | But did n't see it on the telly , only saw it on the . |
| 10 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's difficult to work out somebody 's background when you only see them on the ski-slopes or fooling around après-ski . |
| 12 | ‘ I only see her at the office . |
| 13 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 14 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
| 15 | Once reconciliation has happened , it is important not to see it as the end of the process . |
| 16 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 17 | We came over to see you in the Glory . |
| 18 | By leaving Brentwoods earlier than anticipated , she had not seen him through the publication of his novel . |
| 19 | I 've not seen him since the split . ’ |
| 20 | The driver had not seen anyone on the platform and neither had the booking office clerk . |
| 21 | Watch out for a driver or cyclist who has not seen you on the crossing — Rules 10 , 11 , 12 and 13 . |
| 22 | Cos I 've not seen it with the curtains |
| 23 | What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream . |
| 24 | My belief is that Holyfield , who trades in quantity rather than quality when it comes to punches , will recover from the early storm , which could easily see him on the canvas , to win around the 10th . |
| 25 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 26 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |
| 27 | He did not see me behind the curtain . |
| 28 | He could not see me behind the curtains , and clearly did not expect an answer . |
| 29 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 30 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |