Example sentences of "be see [pron] [prep] the " 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 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 8 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 9 | But I think we 're seeing something in the Forest side we have n't see for what twelve fourteen years are we . |
| 10 | ‘ I shall be seeing them at the weekend . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll be seeing him before the match . |
| 12 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The aim of the game is to see which of the teams can fill up their glass the first . |
| 17 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
| 18 | Another innovation of lenses is seeing yourself without the cover of glasses from a three foot distance for your first time since puberty . |
| 19 | Another innovation of lenses is seeing yourself without the cover of glasses from a three-foot distance for the first time since puberty . |
| 20 | The former Cardiff winger has his faults but so far he has adapted well to his new code and in a Bradford side playing more expansively these days is seeing plenty of the ball . |
| 21 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 22 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 23 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 24 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 25 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 26 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 27 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |