Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [prep] a [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 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 5 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 've been a candidate before , I do n't like to do things badly , since coming into politics I do n't think I have done things badly , I do n't want to fail you and I do n't want you to see me as a failure . |
| 8 | You 're about as pleased to see me as a peasant is to meet the tax-gatherer ! ’ |
| 9 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 10 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 11 | Come to see me in a fortnight . |
| 12 | The tribes that had emerged from much earlier migrations were the Iceni and that of Cassivellaunus , who was clearly hostile to the newcomers , seeing them as a threat round the northern borders of his kingdom . |
| 13 | Misperceptions of elderly people — from seeing them as a burden and expecting them to be docile , to assuming that older people can not be aggressive or violent — play a part in how physical abuse is perceived . |
| 14 | But I was thinking , looking at them — ’ he gestured towards the tourists — ‘ seeing them in a group , it reminded me of a time in cadet school . |
| 15 | However , apparently you have no trouble seeing me as a thief ! ’ |
| 16 | Seeing me in a state of bewildered angst , they would come up and intone directions in a rhythmical and mysterious language . |
| 17 | I never seen her with a hat on in my life before , but Grandma wore a a bonnet , when she came into town . |
| 18 | It 's seen me through a lot . " |
| 19 | I have n't seen them for a while |
| 20 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |
| 22 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 23 | ‘ Have n't seen you for a while . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Have n't seen you for a while , Mac , ’ she said , tight-lipped as she dropped the cheese rolls into a brown paper bag . |
| 25 | I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I 'd bring it in and I thought I had n't seen you for a couple of days . |
| 26 | I 've never seen you in a suit before Barry . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've seen you in a toga . ’ |
| 28 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 29 | As for King Arthur , Tolkien might well have seen him as a symptom of English vagueness . |
| 30 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |