Example sentences of "[noun sg] see [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You never knew when your luck would turn — another mean Taibach slogan to see him through these dazzling fields of honey and clover . |
| 2 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 3 | This is not an uncommon occurrence because birds of prey have what is known as ‘ tunnel vision ’ — which means that although they can focus with deadly accuracy on the prey straight in front of them , they have difficulty seeing anything outside that direct line of sight . |
| 4 | Shirley Archer 's list of statements illustrates the working-class stress on domesticity : here it is contrasted with Elizabeth Gould 's more typically middle-class capacity to see herself in other terms : |
| 5 | As for the Chancellor himself , Mr Parkinson said : ‘ I think he has both the backbone and the brains and the determination to see us through this difficulty . ’ |
| 6 | Intimacy means allowing one person to see you with all your defences down , stripped of any masks . |
| 7 | But it was still a shock to see her like that , looking so old and spent . ’ |
| 8 | It would be a chance to see her on neutral ground , maybe even a chance to explain that it was n't his bloody fault that Laura had shown up at the door only seconds before she herself had . |
| 9 | Indeed , I may say it was not my wish to see you at all . |
| 10 | May was the month to see it to best advantage : azaleas spilled cascades of coral and blood-red flowers over the pathways , lilac bushes waved their plump , perfumed arms , interspersed by spiky sentinels of variegated holly , and overhead , leaning in regally protective attitudes , the magnolia trees spread a lustrous canopy of waxen , creamy blooms . |
| 11 | But true to form , the new season saw him in familiar mood , darting into dangerous positions and scoring with ease as relegated West Ham tried to regain their aristocratic status . |
| 12 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 13 | Insects which may contribute to its survival will see it one way , man sees it in another , a seed-seeking bird will perceive it in another . |
| 14 | ‘ He does n't want the world to see him like this , ’ says Howard . |
| 15 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 16 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 17 | Why risk seeing him at all ? |
| 18 | Future generations will not thank us for spending our energies and money on nuclear weapons , and on the unseemly attraction of enormous wealth to a tiny minority in north America and western Europe while the majority of the population of the world sees nothing but environmental destruction and the continuing decline in living standards . |
| 19 | ‘ I canna see it in this light ya fule , ’ the top-hat swayed angrily as its owner knocked the hand away . |
| 20 | The aspirations of a record company go towards mass hysteria but I do n't think The Wedding Present see it in those terms . |