Example sentences of "[not/n't] see [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you should see me die , you will not see me die in that manner … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The clerk was instructed to inform Mr. Johnson however that the guardians ‘ did not see their way to continuing supplying champagne ’ . |
| 4 | In general lay members did not see their role as an enabling one and do not play a particularly active role in hearings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But Birch is a modest man , despite his immodest ideas , and would not see his book as any more than a starter . |
| 9 | His friends could not see his face in the dark . |
| 10 | He would not see his bride before the wedding night so all sorts of pictures could float in the mind . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Yeah , I did n't see which sort of |
| 13 | I do n't see their relevance in our circumstances . |
| 14 | Fathers do n't have the sole authority in the home and mothers do n't see their role as servants to men . |
| 15 | Children learn it by rote to pass examinations , and they do n't see its relevance to the world around them . |
| 16 | ‘ I was lucky , they did n't see me escape through another door . |
| 17 | Not a black day when she would n't see her father at all , but not a yellow day like Sunday , when , unless on call , he might be there most of the time . |
| 18 | I ca n't see her fitting into a country lifestyle , somehow . ’ |
| 19 | In the event , Robbie did n't see her family at all . |
| 20 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 21 | I did n't see what kind of weapon it was that caused the injury . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't see your cottage from here , ’ said Ann . |
| 23 | ‘ Is it meaner than a dungeon so dark that you ca n't see your hand in front of your face ? ’ |
| 24 | It was bloody we well I had to stop because I could n't see my way at all . |
| 25 | There was nothing symbolic in my reflections — I did n't see my mother as a butcher of fish or of me . |
| 26 | We ca n't see our way to the end of the first foot . ’ |
| 27 | It depresses me that people do n't see our sense of humour , ’ says Steve , Bruce Forsyth style . |
| 28 | I could n't see his expression in the dimness , only that he was still looking at Russell . |