Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [prep] [art] [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 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
7 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
8 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
9 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
10 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
13 | When has anyone among you seen me with a gloomy face ? |
14 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
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 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
17 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
20 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
21 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
22 | Some have seen them as a fine declaration of faith , but they are not . |
23 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
24 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
25 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
26 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
27 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
28 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
29 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
30 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |