Example sentences of "[pers pn] see [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At all stages , pupils learn about France and about French customs , and we encourage them to see their study of French as the key to real communication with real French people . |
| 2 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 3 | We could point out further that the ancient Israelites had not yet developed any notion of supernatural evil forces in opposition to God , and that this also encouraged them to see his hand in dark and terrible events . |
| 4 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 5 | ‘ Shall I see your secretary about that office ? ’ |
| 6 | But then I saw her face within her tangle of tawny hair — unmistakably young and female . |
| 7 | As can be observed from the contrast between I saw him swim/swimming across the river , the infinitive refuses a partial view of an action-like event as intercepted midway between the beginning and the end . |
| 8 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 9 | There was no fire and I had switched off long before the port wing touched the ground , I saw him hare across the airfield diagonally opposed to the direction of the hangar , and indeed the aircraft , and at the same time he was haring away towards Findhorn . |
| 10 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 11 | There 's something new in the nest said the snow bright polar bear , I saw its shadow on a glacier as it had left no paw marks there . |
| 12 | I saw their breath on the frosty air . |
| 13 | I saw his spirit in every visiting creature , |
| 14 | I thought I saw his head at the window . |
| 15 | Yeah I saw his name in |
| 16 | What I mean is , when I was a number on one of those screens , I saw his name alongside me . ’ |
| 17 | I saw his picture in the paper . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw his hat on the hall table . ’ |
| 19 | I think I saw his face on an FBI Wanted poster in a post office in mid-country . |
| 20 | For an instant I thought I saw his face behind the mask — it was only an instant and then it was gone , but I nearly fainted . |
| 21 | Then I saw his face in the driving mirror and felt ashamed , as if I had struck a child . |
| 22 | I saw his boat in the basin as I came along this morning . |
| 23 | ‘ My heart misgave me when I saw his livery at Parfois , for Isambard is close and confidential with him , and sure they had some business between them that bodes us no good here in Wales . ’ |
| 24 | I saw his brother in the Cock a couple of months ago . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I saw your name on the front page . ’ |
| 26 | I saw your name in the ledger , so do n't deny it . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I saw your name in the programme . |
| 28 | ’ I saw your sister at the funeral , ’ I said . |
| 29 | " I saw your dad with it , Stephen . " |
| 30 | I WAS really gobsmacked when I saw your picture of a catwalk model parading a hat with a toy airplane on it . |