Example sentences of "sees [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Females also demonstrate a type of hierarchy that sees them side-by-side , waggling their bodies to form water currents as a show of strength .
2 Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago .
3 Colas sees them there and ties them to his own crook .
4 By taking four years within our period , each half a century apart , one sees them glaringly clearly .
5 Once every 100 years they resume their human shapes and renew their embraces ; anyone who sees them then is turned to stone .
6 To paraphrase Mr Polly , it 's only school that turns the young child from someone who wonders at the marvels around him or her into someone who sees them only in terms of history and geography .
7 It sees them as little more than rural ghettoes designed by previous hated white regimes to keep blacks and whites apart .
8 If he sees me here , trouble will be confirmed .
9 He sees me clearly .
10 If one of the managers sees me there , how can I explain what I 'm doing ? ’
11 That means , Luther said , God sees me as holy in Christ .
12 We probably wo n't get anywhere with this because the law sees me as just a man in a dress which is wrong
13 ‘ The Globe always sees me O.K. when I give 'em anything .
14 It steals between us in such a way that whether or not he sees me only as the outline Woman , I see him through it only as the crude outline Man .
15 Too often the reason that a project fails is that the team leader enters a department to be met by its manager who sees someone only equal , if not subordinate , in status and , fearing an incursion on his empire , makes it nigh impossible to achieve progress .
16 My mother had a complaint today , your family 's old feller but she said , whenever you get a better she 's always goes and sees somebody else .
17 He sees himself more as a poet , his mind receptive to many ideas and influences , some visual , some musical , some literary , which he amalgamates into his work in a similar way to Proust writing A La Research du Temps Perdu .
18 Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream .
19 ‘ He sees himself more as your friend than your doctor , ’ explained Beuno .
20 So that we can wait for the moment when she sees you well enough to be sure whether you are Liam or not .
21 Or the way Marianne practically goes up in smoke when she sees you together . ’
22 ‘ Then you think that whilst he is in truth enamoured of myself , he sees you as second best . ’
23 Each character sees something most abhorrent to himself in the tapestries — his loved ones being defiled and slaughtered , Clerics of his religion being massacred , his people being slain by racial enemies , or similar .
24 Then , when it is ridden in the show ring , or it sees something possibly threatening , its anxiety peaks — it promptly stands on its hind legs or pulls its tongue back over the bit .
25 And he sees something now that to him is mind blowing !
26 To make matters even more complicated , there are two quite distinct kinds of mood-change , for the cat 's pupils will become greatly enlarged not only when it sees something pleasant but also when it sees something terribly threatening .
27 The philosopher Sartre believed that , in the act of love-making , the lover becomes at once subject and object — for she sees herself partly as the body desired by the lover .
28 Pierre comes over and sees him also .
29 If she sees him today she might go over there and tell him his name for nothing again . ’
30 If a member of the public sees him then they should on no account approach him or make a disturbance .
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