Example sentences of "[pers pn] see of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Stooping , what I saw of the valley were glimpses of a richly farmed landscape and a dark brown river , all imbued with a hazy crepuscular Tuscan light .
2 From what I saw of the match he played well .
3 From the little I saw of the game Ipswich seemed quite content with standing inside their own penalty box and only closing down people when they got within 2 yards of it .
4 It was a case do you see of the end itself changing in the course of a war .
5 You absolute bastard Mr what did you see of the crime ?
6 ‘ Do you remember the Polanski movie Repulsion , where all you see of the city is a tiny little street outside Catherine Deneuve 's flat ?
7 ‘ Ever and again comes the thought that what we see of a sign is only the outside of something within , in which the real operations of sense and meaning go on ’ ( 140 ) .
8 The first they saw of the village may thus have been the dilapidated thatched cottage called Gilberts or Gilbards , which , improbable as it would have seemed to Coleridge in the fever of Pantisocracy , was to have so important a place in his later history .
9 The group reflect what they see of the sufferer 's assets and defects ( never defects alone ) and he or she is helped towards the recognition that his or her previous life truly had become unmanageable and that he or she had tried desperately to control everything but was finally having to admit defeat and accept powerlessness .
10 He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist .
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