Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 2 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 3 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 6 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 7 | ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 9 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
| 10 | The public would still pay to see them at the cinema . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've to see them at the bank shortly — there 's that Buttering to be fixed , and no money for it wi'out they 'll give me a loan . ’ |
| 12 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
| 13 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 14 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
| 15 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 16 | Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter . |
| 17 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 18 | Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival . |
| 19 | I 've got a full-time job now , I hardly get to see them during the week . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 21 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 22 | She could n't look out to see them in the yard . |
| 23 | Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh . |
| 24 | They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’ |
| 25 | Well it 's good to see them in the bath anyway having a good good old splash about , you know ? |
| 26 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |
| 27 | ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year . |
| 28 | I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night . |
| 29 | Right , as soon as we 've done this then we 'll have to go and have a , you can have a bath and mummy can have a shower because I 've got a lady coming to see me about a job . |
| 30 | Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car . |