Example sentences of "see [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 2 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 3 | Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often . |
| 4 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 5 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 8 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 9 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 10 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 11 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 12 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 13 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 14 | The committee looks forward to seeing you in the coming year . |
| 15 | Well thanks very much for that Dave I 'll look forward to seeing you in the near future . |
| 16 | ‘ When you 're through , sir , the CO would like to see you in the Orderly Tent . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 18 | Hence Durkheim insisted that to understand one set of social phenomena we must see them in the round — in their wider , social context . |
| 19 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 20 | They 're advertising , we 'll see them in the Yellow Pages . |
| 21 | They do n't er , you ca n't see them in the same way you could go and see your parents . |
| 22 | Then as her stomach jumps in panic , Maggie sees them in the far corner , Lucy and Frieda , with Jo beside them . |
| 23 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 24 | Come to us , God of love , that we may see you in the poor , the sick and the rejected . |
| 25 | I 'll come and see you in the mental hospital if you promise not to cause a scene . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll see you in the same pub we used last time . |
| 27 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 28 | For a long while , I could see her in the rear-view mirror , standing in the dusty road in her long white dress , holding her child and looking after the Felder . |
| 29 | It was n't as if he could see her in the flimsy satin nightdress , was it ? |
| 30 | He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed , rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt . |