Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hello , ’ she said hoarsely , pleased to see them at ease with each other again . |
| 2 | " You have come here chiefly to hunt the rare wild animals in our jungles so that the people of America will be able to see them on display in the Sherman Museum in Washington . |
| 3 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 4 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 5 | The recognition of interests and groups in society , and a concern to see them in relation to government and the development of public policy represented an important breakthrough in the study of British politics . |
| 6 | One day they were told that a police officer wished to see them in connection with the charges already preferred . |
| 7 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 8 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 9 | A twenty four year old woman came to see me for treatment on the ward , a smoker . |
| 10 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 11 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 12 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with ‘ flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 13 | The police team had gone from her house , she had managed to avoid seeing them at work by her long session with Gabriel and John Coffin in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 14 | It meant a new way of looking at reading errors , seeing them as evidence of children 's use of linguistic knowledge . |
| 15 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |
| 16 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 17 | ‘ Still keen on films after seeing them in action for a day ? ’ |
| 18 | He probably just assumed that you were seeing me in connection with my work . ’ |
| 19 | I have around 15 more good years ahead of me , but I fail to see plenty of room at the top for women like me . |
| 20 | One trainee on a course for people looking for employment commented that seeing himself on video in a mock interview was an experience that changed his life . |
| 21 | R. J. Campbell even had the honour of seeing himself in wax at Madame Tussauds . |
| 22 | ‘ He seemed ’ , wrote his early biographer Anthony Sampson , ‘ to see himself as part of a fashionable play . ’ |
| 23 | They have seen them as evidence of the need for different kinds and structures of planning , rather than as evidence of the impossibility or undesirability of planning as such . |
| 24 | If you want uninspired you should have seen them versus SCUM on sunday . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've seen you on deck with your husband and little boy , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Bamber Gascoigne , who had never seen him at work before his show , told me : ‘ He was absolutely wonderful in it . |
| 27 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 28 | Hill admitted too that his father would have been more than surprised to have seen him in action in Monaco three decades on from his supremacy in the 1960s . |
| 29 | The top trainers at home and abroad , Claire Hurst , the National and International Championships , I 've seen her on ice on the |
| 30 | If you knew about show-jumping , you had heard of Nutty McTavish , even seen her on television in replay when there was a lull in the senior event and the commentator decided to fill in with earlier happenings . |