Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 5 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 6 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 7 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 8 | ‘ He had to go to Burford to see someone about a new job . ’ |
| 9 | I think the reason he dresses as an Edwardian is because he wants to see himself as a dashing young stage door Johnny . ’ |
| 10 | He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great , brown eyes , Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer , leader of a gang of vagabonds . |
| 11 | It 's just that this other woman to whom he comes fresh enables him to see himself in a different , more exciting and rejuvenating light . |
| 12 | Yet Æthelred was not always militarily inactive , reluctant to see himself in a military light , or unwilling to make military preparations . |
| 13 | When has anyone among you seen me with a gloomy face ? |
| 14 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 15 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 16 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 17 | Some have seen them as a fine declaration of faith , but they are not . |
| 18 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 21 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 22 | ‘ Have you seen owt of a black dog ? ’ said Jack to Philip . |
| 23 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 24 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 25 | ‘ I have n't seen you in a long time . ’ |
| 26 | I have n't seen you in a long time . |
| 27 | The tight one will I 've never seen you in a tight dress though , you do n't let me see so I |
| 28 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 29 | One , an older school , has seen him as a noble if embattled statesman . |
| 30 | Leslie had an aunt in Durban , but by great misfortune disembarkation was on this occasion not allowed , and he did not meet the relative who had last seen him as a little boy in Scotland . |