Example sentences of "[adv] see [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1	In general lay members did not see their role as an enabling one and do not play a particularly active role in hearings .
2	The present arrangements , under which a defending barrister will often not see his client until the morning of the trial , is unsatisfactory in the extreme .
3	His friends could not see his face in the dark .
4	He would not see his bride before the wedding night so all sorts of pictures could float in the mind .
5	‘ I 'll just see my father to a taxi and come back for you . ’
6	Ca n't you just see your mother in a pink floppy hat with cherries on it ?
7	He could still see her painting in the garden .
8	‘ Yes , I can still see my mother at the urn . ’
9	An exhibtion of his work is on at the Midlands Arts Gallery and you can also see his work at the Malvern Festival at the end of May .
10	I nearly fell over him and he turned round , but I did n't really see his face in the dark , or if I did , I blocked it out I was so scared .
11	Children learn it by rote to pass examinations , and they do n't see its relevance to the world around them .
12	I ca n't see her fitting into a country lifestyle , somehow . ’
13	She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe .
14	There was nothing symbolic in my reflections — I did n't see my mother as a butcher of fish or of me .
15	We ca n't see our way to the end of the first foot . ’
16	I could n't see his expression in the dimness , only that he was still looking at Russell .
17	For although the chairman of the University Grants Committee , Edward Parkes , may have received his well-earned knighthood at the end of the year — in a batch meanly thin , as usual , on honours for the scientific community — many of the nation 's academics will never see their profession in the same rosy light .

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