Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commercial company created by Lord Burghersh to run ‘ Sporting Glory ’ and rent the facility went bankrupt , owing money to printers , the V&A ( it has only seen part of its £100,000 rental fee ) and , of course , the backers . |
| 2 | This is easy for one who sees , since he already possesses a picture of the surface of his own body ; and , on this account , he now , by means of the unchanging local sign , even in the dark , translates each stimulus which he has once seen act on a definite place , to the same place in this picture of the body which is mentally presented before him . ’ |
| 3 | For so many years himself a master-manufacturer at New Lanark , he might fairly be supposed still to see virtue in those among whom he had been numbered . |
| 4 | Man has always seen woman as his enemy . |
| 5 | Gogarth has also seen action from Meyers , who braved the wall right of Hunger to provide Extinction E7/8 6b — an obviously scary number . |
| 6 | Australia has also seen debate over whether doctors trained overseas suffer racial discrimination . |
| 7 | I am entirely convinced that Joseph Kosuth has never seen work by Claudio Parmiggiani either actually or in reproduction . |
| 8 | Lou has never seen love as a sufficient motive for anyone doing anything , which , when it comes to it , I daresay is why I left . |
| 9 | I called in to see Dad before coming here and while I was there an insurance investigator called Tom O'Neill came to see him . |
| 10 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 11 | Then , after the party we went along to see Man at The Lyceum . |
| 12 | Blackett also saw action in 1914 off Port Stanley in the Falklands Islands . |
| 13 | His wife was a kinswoman of the earl 's councillor Sir John Pickering , which implies that Middleton did not see service to Gloucester as an alternative to Northumberland 's lordship . |
| 14 | His wife was a kinswoman of the earl 's councillor Sir John Pickering , which implies that Middleton did not see service to Gloucester as an alternative to Northumberland 's lordship . |
| 15 | Eisenhower , who was not unsympathetic to the plight of the blacks , did not see legislation as the real answer to the problem : " I do not believe you can change the hearts of men with laws and decisions . " |
| 16 | It was stated that authorities on the Japanese constitution did not see difficulty in fitting security provisions into a treaty or placing it in a discrete American-Japanese treaty . |
| 17 | He did not see size of firm as a particularly important factor in his choice . |
| 18 | Bishops were again brought in to arbitrate ; but they did not see eye to eye . |
| 19 | The use of the Soviet army for this purpose ( for example in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan ) gave rise to much dissatisfaction among the troops themselves , who did not see action against Soviet citizens as part of their role . |
| 20 | She did not see Gedge until six weeks later when he arrived at their door after a minor road accident . |
| 21 | Since women do not see housework as a coherent , meaningful structure of tasks demanding their full attention , they are not made dissatisfied by its fragmented nature . |
| 22 | Lawrence added : ‘ It must be stressed that we do not see ball-tampering in our domestic game as a serious problem , but we are determined to stamp it out . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | America , Britain and France do not see eye to eye . |
| 25 | 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 " ? |
| 26 | ‘ They accept what has happened ; but they do not see anger as the fuel for vengeance . |
| 27 | What this means , of course , is that functionalists do not see consciousness as a defining feature of the mental . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'ave n't seen thoo since t'funeral . ’ |
| 29 | It shone ; its fine veins sparkled where the tiny gold wires crossed but she did n't see wonder in it . |
| 30 | ‘ You ca n't pretend he 's normal and it 's no secret that he did n't see eye to eye with Alain . ’ |