Example sentences of "[conj] we see [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Er , overall you know , we 're constantly looking where , for reducing staffing levels and where we see opportunity of that , we do it .
2 I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed .
3 ‘ Life is full of suffering ’ , we might tell ourselves — and we see confirmation of our belief in every conversation with our problem-ridden friends , with every disaster-obsessed news report ( which we compulsively listen to ) , and with every fresh trauma and misfortune that we attract into our own lives .
4 She says the setting is lovely , but when we saw hime at the Albert Hall he was superb — he 's not as good this evening .
5 When we see Grandcourt at breakfast there with Mr Lush , the scene is suggestively rendered as a ‘ still-life ’ , artfully composed but with no vital principle , the room ‘ seeming the stiller for its sober antiquated elegance , as if it kept a conscious , well-bred silence ’ .
6 But it is only when we see conversion as a miraculous , radical and gracious act of God , that there is an adequate basis and motivation for church growth .
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