Example sentences of "[adv] see [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 2 | We 've all seen pictures of Page 3 girls and pornographic images of women showing the female body in a constantly inviting , sexual way just walking into a newsagent 's on a Sunday morning often means you are surrounded by them ) and it is hardly surprising if girls themselves , as well as men , sometimes feel confused ; believing that girls might ‘ want ’ to be raped , or are asking for trouble , if they dress up to go out , or behave independently by going out or walking home alone . |
| 3 | I only saw highlights on match of the day , but from what I saw , the play was amazing . |
| 4 | It was not fun enough for the fans , nor artistic enough for the art loving public ( or so it seemed from the vulgar poster and catalogue ; actually , it contained some wonderful and rarely seen pieces of silver ) . |
| 5 | THOSE keen environmentalists , Richard Branson and Sir James Goldsmith , are no longer seeing eye to eye . |
| 6 | When I look at the results of other development efforts , I have also not seen improvements in cost of maintenance . |
| 7 | He did not see size of firm as a particularly important factor in his choice . |
| 8 | In any case he does not see students at home . ’ |
| 9 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 10 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 11 | Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love . |
| 12 | America , Britain and France do not see eye to eye . |
| 13 | And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ? |
| 14 | Bishops were again brought in to arbitrate ; but they did not see eye to eye . |
| 15 | The portly Breton was standing in the town in yesterday 's parliamentary elections but it would appear that he does not see eye to eye with local activists . |
| 16 | ‘ This one wanted to do my work , but when he started telling me that personally he was against all pet shops and would like to see them closed we did n't exactly see eye to eye . |
| 17 | Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book . |
| 18 | In other words not see science in isolation from economics , anthropology , politics — all these disciplines should be working together . ’ |
| 19 | erm you know , he 's possibly seeing things on television , sort of areas that he actually visited . |
| 20 | You must be so used to always seeing people under stress … |
| 21 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 22 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
| 23 | ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends . |
| 24 | Although Charlie could always see Trentham in front of him , Tommy was so silent in his wake that from time to time he had to look back just to be certain his friend was still there . |
| 25 | ‘ The golden rule of conduct , therefore , is mutual toleration seeing that we will never all think alike and that we shall always see Truth in fragment ( sic ) and from different angles of vision ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ We do n't always see eye to eye , ’ Marler reflected , blowing smoke circles , ‘ Newman and I. But he 's had a tough time , I 'll give him that . ’ |
| 27 | " I do n't always see eye to eye with my father for instance about the way things are done here . " |
| 28 | Fernand was employed by the previous owner and does not always see eye to eye with Alain on the way the estate should be managed , but no … ’ |
| 29 | They do n't always see eye to eye but they respect one another . |
| 30 | ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye . |