Example sentences of "[adv] see [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 2 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 3 | Except that she could still see Julius in every drawing . |
| 4 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 5 | Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor . |