Example sentences of "see thing [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I see things like the series Confessional on TV I feel like a black person must have felt watching the Black and White Minstrel show . |
| 2 | We see things within the context of what we are subconsciously programmed to see , through glasses tinted strongly with the colour of our inward , unconscious mind . |
| 3 | The leader as always is er is a directive agency , the leader as it were erm takes over the individual self-determination by erm effectively telling telling the good what to do erm how can this er does this have to be in in one direction only I mean one gets the feelings very often you know you see things in the newspaper crowd hysteria and so on , erm do crowds always have to become kind of primitive and regressed or or can leaders influence them in other directions ? |
| 4 | ‘ If people wave to you to stop , or if you see things in the road , you must not stop , you must drive on , ’ said Florence . |
| 5 | Thus Vaughan is assuming a certain amount of shared knowledge on the part of the reader ; but because we can not , naturally , see things from the perspective of his origo , he must also assist the reader in the assignment of indexical or deictic meanings . |