Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] see [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be times during a good investigative session when they need to draw several quick diagrams perhaps , or they may suddenly see connections between things which they can not yet explain but need to indicate immediately . |
| 2 | ‘ They should not see television as a panacea for all financial ills . ’ |
| 3 | We should therefore see shields on their own as aniconic representations of the deity ; the shield motif in the frescoes at Knossos is a religious , not a military , symbol . |
| 4 | This is a particular problem with working dogs , such as gundogs and collies , as they do not respond properly to their tasks ; but in the home , pet dogs may not see objects around them , and start to appear abnormally clumsy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You 'll also see remnants of Dartmoor 's obsolete industries , warrening/rabbit breeding — and tin mining . |
| 7 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 8 | and that 's a bargain , and se you know these reps would come round selling this that and the other and if , you could only see samples after , would n't touch it with a barge pole like you know , yeah I 'll have that , that 's all but that 's because he had a good grounding |
| 9 | Frederica could not see Alexander at all : indeed she had noted he was not there : she stared around and around now at colourless air and sand as though he might rise from them like a mirage . |
| 10 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 11 | Except that she could still see Julius in every drawing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He could also see bits of horns or wings down the side . |
| 14 | I 'd often see birds with gut or wire wrapped around their necks or wings , or looking ill because , as I discovered later , they 'd swallowed lead shot which the anglers used to weight their lines . |
| 15 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 16 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |
| 17 | She could n't see Miguelito from here , but she had seen enough . |
| 18 | He could n't see curvature in the third dimension . |
| 19 | Somewhere along the line , Cat and Prince 's Paisley Park organisation could n't see eye to eye . |
| 20 | Old fair hands could doubtless see order in the chaos , the separate camps of the different families within the larger camp . |
| 21 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |
| 22 | It is not a very demanding version of the chase , especially on Sundays , when you may well see rows of gunmen in position only a few easy yards from the hotel where they mean to have lunch . |
| 23 | It was agreed that they would not see Minton for a while . |
| 24 | Elizabeth , who met her fiance on holiday five years ago , was described last night as a kind person who ‘ would not see evil in anyone ’ . |
| 25 | But even now , having gone through that process , they would not see men as the enemy , they feel that they do have a lot in common , for example , with maybe the conception of women organising in National Liberation struggles that was mentioned earlier . |
| 26 | And if he did n't do that she could n't possibly see how they would ever see eye to eye . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 28 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No , ’ she agreed blankly , avoiding his eyes , so that she would n't see distaste in them . |
| 30 | In fact , whereas I would n't see art as a necessity , I would see the woman as a necessity . |