Example sentences of "[verb] see [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 2 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 3 | She asked to see the daughter of the house . |
| 4 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
| 5 | ‘ And we did n't want to see a team of scriptwriters messing around with our characters . |
| 6 | Surprisingly it does devalue the works for collectors and museums who will want to see the back of the picture . |
| 7 | She did n't want to see the hurt in his eyes , in case it made her soften and forgive him . |
| 8 | Ĺeonie did not want to see the ambulance from the clinic arrive . |
| 9 | I did n't want to see the face of the archer . |
| 10 | So , Coward is elevated to join the likes of Greed ( 1923 ) and Paisa ( 1946 ) and Le jour se lève ( 1939 ) , but Manvell cautiously refuses to bestow individual plaudits , preferring to see the film as ‘ one of those rare films for which one can never be sure to whom the real credit is due … an example of the unity achieved by the cooperation of many creative minds ’ . |
| 11 | The excavator suggests that the positioning of the doors and the size of the buildings ‘ does not seem to indicate an agricultural function ’ ( Millett 1983 , p. 247 ) , preferring to see the stability of the layout as a reflection of social units , whether divided by ‘ kinship , sex or status ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 12 | I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat . |
| 13 | It would prefer to see the income from the rental stream plus trading activities kept separate from the results of disposals of investment properties . |
| 14 | And yet we were seeing seeing the film from the Americans where the film stars of the day with their twin sets and fully fashion stockings and the pearls and what have you . |
| 15 | Below the photic zone oxygen is consumed by biological activity so immediat from immediately below the photic zone you tend to see a decrease in oxygen with depth reaching a minima somewhere between five hundred and a thousand metres depth |
| 16 | Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence . |
| 17 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 18 | Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do . |
| 19 | Radical analysts of welfare development tend to see the imposition of mandatory retirement , encouraged or enforced by state pension schemes , as pan of the process whereby , in late industrial societies with highly specialized divisions of labour , elderly people are marginalized into a condition of ‘ structured dependence ’ . |
| 20 | We tend to see the history of art as an ordered succession of works appreciated for and judged by their conceptual content . |
| 21 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 22 | Because Bem and other gender schema theorists assume that rationality and cognitive unity characterize psychological subjects , they tend to see the break-up of gender schemata as hindered by dominant social relations , but still as fairly straightforward in itself . |
| 23 | As a theory it is common enough : in the Italian Constitution the family is the only association among people which is designated ‘ natural ’ , and contemporary British conservatives tend to see the family as a possible counterweight to the power of the state . |
| 24 | Americans , with no colonial history in the Middle East , tend to see the war against Mr Hussein as a police action against an international thug . |
| 25 | Equally , we tend to see the learning of a foreign language as mastering a skill , thereby perhaps doing ourselves a disservice . |
| 26 | Scientific language is theory-laden : in using it , one is taught to see the world in a particular way . |
| 27 | We played the harmonium and sang together and Dad sometimes gave us money to go to see a picture at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 28 | America , Canada , Britain and Sweden are all now expected to see a fall in economic output this year ; America 's GNP is forecast to shrink by 0.4% . |
| 29 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 30 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |