Example sentences of "[conj] see [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 2 | I had heard something about it once or seen it on a map , but I could remember nothing definite . |
| 3 | Read it as an entertaining mock gothic tale , or see it as a celebration of Scottish pride and of feminism , and a condemnation of the return to Victorian values . |
| 4 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 5 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 6 | He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight . |
| 7 | What makes the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape ? ( 194–219 ) |
| 8 | This suggests that the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape , is that in the latter case an act of recognition , or of interpretation , takes place . |
| 9 | She had not seen Luke since he had escorted her out of his hotel suite and seen her into a taxi on the night of the awards ceremony , more than a week previously . |
| 10 | Well what do I go and see her on a Sunday for ? |
| 11 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
| 12 | I said , you may go and see him for a minute , he 's out . |
| 13 | We 'll go and see him in a while . ’ |
| 14 | He said to go away and come back and see him in a year 's time . ’ |
| 15 | I 'll go around and see him in a minute . |
| 16 | ‘ Look , I 'm terribly sorry , ’ continued Blanche , ‘ to have to come back and see you at a time like this , Mr Lancaster — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll push off and see you in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 18 | That is , the generality of the depression will depend on whether the person 's helpless views extend to all areas of his life ; the length of the depression will depend on how stable his helpless attitudes have become ; and self-esteem will be lowered if the person has internalised his helpless attitudes and sees himself as a failure . |
| 19 | But Branson , 42 , does not want the simulators sitting idle and sees them as a new money-spinner . |
| 20 | Stanley sees through her facade and sees her as a threat to his marriage , and his affection for Stella . |
| 21 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 22 | The Initiative wants OSF to contribute to the Unix specification for ACE , and sees itself as a possible vehicle for knitting the discordant elements of the establishment together . |
| 23 | She blames her mother for this and sees it as a sign of inferiority , thus experiencing penis envy and transfers her affections to her father as he has the penis she wants . |
| 24 | only had this sprung on me er today er when I went in to the Hall and and and saw them with a notice and a table collecting signatures . |
| 25 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 26 | This attitude was sustained until August 1939 by the converse attitudes of many on the Right of Conservatism , who clearly sympathized with Hitler and saw him as a bastion against Bolshevism both in Germany and in Spain . |
| 27 | as he half knew , he would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme for pulling Tristram out of trouble , and saw her for a moment from a position of detachment : a tall young woman looking younger than her twenty-nine years . |
| 28 | Jason was jealous of her ability to come up with consistently good ideas and saw her as a threat to his career . |
| 29 | Where were all those young hopefuls , who even in their crippled state had left death behind them and saw nothing but a future ? |
| 30 | Schoenberg was a great admirer of Brahm 's music , and saw himself as a natural successor to the German romantic school . |