Example sentences of "not see [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 2 | Nigel was paid for his work , but he hated not seeing his piece in print . |
| 3 | E. P. Thompson , in criticising Lawrence Stone 's reconstruction of The Family , Sex and Marriage , warned that : ‘ the point of history is not to see their occasions through the mist of our feelings , nor to measure them against the Modern Us . |
| 4 | She had not seen her daughter since 9 o'clock the previous evening . |
| 5 | A MUSLIM woman who has not seen her bridegroom since the day of a registrar 's office wedding had her marriage annulled yesterday by a Scottish judge . |
| 6 | She has not seen her children for two years . |
| 7 | These will be offered to you when you first register with a doctor or if you have not seen your doctor for some time . |
| 8 | ‘ If you should see me die , you will not see me die in that manner … |
| 9 | PRINCESS DIANA has been told she can not see her sons until next Tuesday . |
| 10 | Always start ‘ Tall , good-looking Mary Smith , as she stepped out of her cottage that morning , did not realize she would not see her children until the following , three months later . |
| 11 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 12 | The clerk was instructed to inform Mr. Johnson however that the guardians ‘ did not see their way to continuing supplying champagne ’ . |
| 13 | Parents would not see their children for most of the day , and when they finished their daily work they would be too tired for much except rest . |
| 14 | In general lay members did not see their role as an enabling one and do not play a particularly active role in hearings . |
| 15 | If you can not see your way to doing this , I regret that I shall have to suggest to the Parish Council that they consider moving this account to another bank . |
| 16 | The visibility was so bad even after dawn that ‘ you could not see your fingers in front of your face ’ . |
| 17 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |
| 18 | The present arrangements , under which a defending barrister will often not see his client until the morning of the trial , is unsatisfactory in the extreme . |
| 19 | ACTOR Woody Allen was heartbroken last night after being told he could not see his children for Christmas . |
| 20 | WOODY ALLEN went shopping yesterday after a judge told him he could not see his children for Christmas but could send them presents . |
| 21 | But Birch is a modest man , despite his immodest ideas , and would not see his book as any more than a starter . |
| 22 | His friends could not see his face in the dark . |
| 23 | He would not see his bride before the wedding night so all sorts of pictures could float in the mind . |
| 24 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 25 | After all , audiences want to be entertained , not see their idols with feet of clay . |