Example sentences of "see [noun sg] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empirically , the problem of seeing Labour 's rise in West Ham as part of the metropolitan experience is that the borough was administratively separate . |
| 2 | The fall of the Noldor ( S , p. 69 ) repeats a phrase from the Old English poem Maxims I about ‘ inventing and tempering wounding swords ’ : the Anglo-Saxon poet seems to have looked back to Cain and Abel for the origin of evil , rather than Adam and Eve , and to have seen evil 's symptom in metallurgy . |
| 3 | I mean alright , you can see mum 's point in one respect , because she works nine till six every day . |
| 4 | She could not see Finn 's neck for the hair . |
| 5 | From the penalty spot , Rook drove into the corner for his second of the game and give his side a passage into the next round , a defeat that sees City 's interest in Cup games at an end for this season . |
| 6 | Next year could also see Unit 's graduation from the third tier to the main market . |
| 7 | At the same time , though , I can see Mother 's side of it , at least on this one point , for she has n't considered herself as being just a housekeeper all these years , she 's felt mistress of the place , and she 's going to miss it . ’ |
| 8 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 9 | What became known as the Naythuyein Mass Meeting heard Aung San speak about the Burmese contribution to the Allied cause ; he saw Labour 's victory as a sign that imperialism was on the way out and he affirmed that ‘ 99 per cent of the PBF would be unwilling to serve in the fighting forces of a country that was not free ’ . |
| 10 | Although some feminists rejected psychoanalytical theory on the grounds that it is inherently woman-unfriendly , many feminist film theorists after Mulvey saw Lacan 's work on the psychic formation of gendered identity in relation to specularity ( gazing in the mirror ) , the unconscious and language as central to their concerns . |
| 11 | Before then , he wanted Junior to see Dad 's moment of glory . |