Example sentences of "see them [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 :
3 ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said .
4 ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December .
5 I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend
6 The public would still pay to see them at the cinema .
7 ‘ 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 . ’
8 You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ?
9 County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 I 've got a full-time job now , I hardly get to see them during the week . ’
16 I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild .
17 She could n't look out to see them in the yard .
18 Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh .
19 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 . ’
20 Well it 's good to see them in the bath anyway having a good good old splash about , you know ?
21 Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children .
22 ‘ I shall be seeing them at the weekend . ’
23 The emphasis , therefore , shifts away from the uneven development of class relations and towards elites within the state apparatus , seeing them as the key , relatively autonomous decision-makers .
24 Here the unconscious mind takes the more specific form of Christabel 's sexuality and sexual desires , which she has been taught by her upbringing to disregard , and even to suppress , seeing them as the dark and evil side of human nature .
25 Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack .
26 As we praise God for all our circumstances , seeing them in the light of his presence and love , then we become literally ‘ thankful persons ’ , transfused by a new radiance of joy and thanksgiving .
27 He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired .
28 I 've seen them at the shop , paying their bills .
29 He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride .
30 And I have seen them at the mid-day rest hour of twelve to one , I have seen a ploughman come into the stable , shake up the straw in the stall of his leading beast and lie down there and sleep .
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