Example sentences of "be see [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 2 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 3 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 4 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 5 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 6 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 7 | No problem Mr Prospect , I 'm glad you feel that way however I am seeing you in a fortnight 's time , have a chat with him between then and now and when I see you next week I 'll ta or whenever the time 'll be , I 'll take his telephone number from you then . |
| 8 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 9 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 10 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 11 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 12 | Something tells me I wo n't be seeing her for a while either . |
| 13 | ‘ I shall be seeing them at the weekend . ’ |
| 14 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 15 | Then he observed in a flat tone , ‘ What a tragedy , in that case , that you wo n't be seeing him for a while . ’ |
| 16 | I 'll be seeing him before the match . |
| 17 | Ca n't you stand the fact that I 'm seeing you as a fallible human being instead of the flawless cardboard cut-out you like to pretend to be ? ’ |
| 18 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 19 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 20 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 21 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 22 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 23 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 24 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 25 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 26 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 27 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 28 | A good way to understand The Lord of the Rings in its full complexity is to see it as an attempt to reconcile two views of evil , both old , both authoritative , both living , each seemingly contradicted by the other . |
| 29 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Nobody 's seen her for a week , and she 's not taken any of her stuff . ’ |