Example sentences of "[not/n't] see the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not seeing the significance at the time of the two articles , or of the prong ( pitchfork ) and shovel that followed them , the two boys finished their frugal breakfast and set out upon their chores . |
| 2 | ‘ Not really ; it was a case of not seeing the wood for the trees . |
| 3 | THE Hitch-hiker 's Guide To Not Seeing The Galaxy Before Your Time : Do n't accept a lift in President Kennedy 's Cadillac , James Dean 's Porsche , Mark Thatcher 's Land-Rover . |
| 4 | ‘ People are just not seeing the value of breast milk , ’ says Alison Spiro , NCT milk-bank coordinator and Parents Family Health Adviser . |
| 5 | To be permanently enmeshed in detail is not to see the wood for the trees . |
| 6 | At that moment he reappeared in the kitchen doorway and , seeming not to see the censure in her eyes , or not to care , observed with a dry smile , holding aloft his glass of water , ‘ Handy stuff for putting out fires . ’ |
| 7 | She would have had to be blind not to see the mixture of desire and destruction in the getsure . |
| 8 | She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation . |
| 9 | We all knew it would be disastrous ; we foretold that her husband would walk out , that her other children would suffer : we saw she was the only one of the family unit who could n't bear not to see the fruit of her womb , however sour , ripen , drop and live . |
| 10 | erm I think it 's important not to see the city as a sort of down-trodden , poor , hard-working , well , I 'm sure they were hard-working , but very poor people . |
| 11 | It is difficult not to see the seeds of authoritarianism in this thinking : Rougemont says , ‘ C'est pour obéir que nous sommes libres ’ : it is in order to be able to obey that we are free . |
| 12 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 13 | She had not seen the building for three years and the projecting , metal construction offended her as impetigo would , sprouting from the face of a beautiful woman . |
| 14 | ‘ I am convinced that if the people of Cheltenham had been blind and not seen the colour of John Taylor 's skin he would have been elected , ’ said Mr Nick Leach , secretary of a Cheltenham Tory ward . |
| 15 | He hardly knew a thing about the world and had not seen the sun for twenty-five years . |
| 16 | He had not seen the correspondence about the lines through Denbigh , as his men no longer worked over , nor signed the road to Denbigh . |
| 17 | Although some US rugby enthusiasts were able to tap into these satellite transmissions to view the matches live , the majority have not seen the heroics of the best players in their sport . |
| 18 | If there is doubt about the cause of death — if , for example , the death was sudden and the doctor had not seen the person within fourteen days of death , or if they had no general practitioner , the coroner must be informed , and will decide whether it is necessary to hold a post mortem . |
| 19 | I 've not seen the wife for a month . ’ |
| 20 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 21 | Instead , we shall zoom in on the ‘ new boys ’ two of which are far from new and have not seen the light of day for many a long year . |
| 22 | Alston replied to this in 1756 , his minute writing condensing to a single sheet thoughts which Miller 's careful copper-plate would stretch to three , and concluded that Edinburgh lagged behind Chelsea in some reading — he had not seen the Voyages until quite recently . |
| 23 | You may also have to state facts which are obvious to you , but not to cousins who have not seen the family for several years . |
| 24 | We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs . |
| 25 | I have not seen the leaflet to which my hon. Friend refers , so I do not know the details . |
| 26 | This week has not seen the end of the row about Europe in the Conservative party , but merely a regrouping of forces for the battle still to come . |
| 27 | ‘ They were all looking round the screen saying they had not seen the bum of anyone famous before , ’ he recalls . |
| 28 | Anne , 33 , was first on the scene at Burnaby Dun , Yorks , after worried neighbours reported they had not seen the woman for some time . |
| 29 | No , Mr Patel was very sorry , no , he had not seen the face of the man who worked on the car . |
| 30 | It is not appropriate here to analyse , nor even to state , the many reasons for this difficulty , but after scrutinising the research findings I have to say that LEAs have on the whole not seen the implications of the 1981 Act for social services departments or district health authorities . |