Example sentences of "he see [pron] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 How could he see it in the dark ?
2 All day he sees himself in the glass darkly
3 Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree .
4 For several minutes he saw nothing in the shimmering haze of the plain .
5 At the inquest into his death and those he killed the sergeant said he saw nothing in the dead officer to make him question his state of mind .
6 He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people .
7 My lady and gentleman took him out that night and he drank a lot of fizzy stuff and fell over — I 'm black and I do n't think he saw me in the darkness .
8 He saw her in the doorway , and said , ‘ What are you hanging around for ? ’
9 Fran must have made some noise , some movement , some tiny betraying gesture , because he swung round , his face hardening when he saw her in the doorway .
10 I had a mental picture of the conductor on the red London bus talking to Hammouda the village postman , of the English boy 's friends playing with Khadija 's grandson , especially Margaret , whose hair reminded me of the coloured feather duster Khadija 's grandson had pleaded for everytime he saw it in the market , thinking that it was a toy or a bird .
11 He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was .
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