Example sentences of "see [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife .
32 Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes .
33 These days , enlightened employers are supposed to see alcoholism as an illness , not a vice .
34 The Hercules came over from Lockheed in America , to replace the Hastings which was tired and outdated after seeing action during the war .
35 After seeing action in the Suez campaign of 1956 , it saw service with 57S in a training role , with the remainder of its service life being spent with 14 Flotille , the last Aeronavale unit to use the type , before being retired in 1964 .
36 One adverse critic of Dustin 's performance was the young and eccentric English actor Victor Henry , who , on seeing Dustin in a bar after the show , emptied a glass of beer over his head .
37 ‘ I do not like to see fear in a woman 's eyes , especially a woman who places so much value in equality .
38 At least she had one thing to be thankful for , she consoled herself , seeing Veronica into a taxi in the Aldwych : she was in no doubt at all that Veronica would be in touch again .
39 When it 's daylight in Leningrad and the buses and lorries are roaring along the wide Nevsky , and African delegates are being toasted at multi-course lunches at the Astoria , then it 's easy to see Leningrad as the birthplace of Communism .
40 The Americans have begun to see Ukraine as an interloper threatening the post-cold-war world order , above all by its reluctance to ratify nuclear-arms treaties , which might unravel the carefully negotiated global web of arms-control accords .
41 If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ?
42 I believe that this application for a residence order is yet another step in this game and that neither parent has been able or willing to see matters from the children 's point of view or in terms of their feelings , experiences and level of understanding .
43 We should distinguish between Ben Jonson 's desire to confirm his authority over his Workes — collecting and seeing texts through the press , attempting to control what was ascribed to him and how these texts were to be viewed , even trying to restrict his readership — and circumstances where such authorial interventions are absent .
44 They kissed , briefly , and made a date for about eleven the same morning , to see Karen onto the ferry .
45 Even Mr Sugden made himself available to meet the visitor , ready to assume that here was the returning warrior , eager to see areas of the country which only he could recommend .
46 Farmers were slow to see management as an area where training could help but as more became aware of their own shortcomings there was an increase in requests for one-day courses .
47 We would like to see work at the accident blackspots ; junctions and blind bends where you ca n't see .
48 He hopes to see work on the issue of support , particularly pairing up with another person .
49 Thus in general it seems a mistake to see attitudinism as the enemy of reason in ethics .
50 and seeing England to the brink of victory .
51 HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria .
52 HAVING TRAVELLED over 150 miles each way to see Nirvana at the London Astoria last Wednesday , I was interested to see what the event would be like regarding ‘ crusties ’ , T-shirt prices and security at the ‘ notorious ’ Astoria .
53 But I began to see limitations in the amount I could give .
54 George was already phrasing his call to Culliman ; perhaps the request should be for Maxim to ‘ make himself available ’ to the Study group a suggestion of staying several days give the chap a chance to see Washington in the fall … and make a quick trip to St Louis and back .
55 To this extent it is not especially helpful to see pubs as a category of buildings , but rather to keep a clear distinction in mind between interior and exterior .
56 I 've seen Swindon on the television in Holland .
57 He went into the downstairs room where he had seen Marcus through the window .
58 1992–93 has seen progress in a number of areas and I would like to highlight these first ;
59 1992–93 has seen progress in a number of areas and I would like to highlight these first ;
60 I ai n't seen Sarah since the party , no .
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