Example sentences of "see [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All sorts of people go to see performers after a first night . |
| 2 | She looked up in surprise to see Jason with an unusually serious expression on his face . |
| 3 | I 'll go back to London , I 'll move to a new district , I 'll start seeing Sophie on a regular basis , I 'll do my job as if I were any competent lawyer , and I 've come here alone , you bastard , so why do n't you do whatever you 've got in mind ? |
| 4 | Low tide is the best time to see birds from a boat — and low tide , especially the very low tide of early spring , is the best time to get stuck on a sandbank ! |
| 5 | ‘ But it 's a younger generation — the Yuppies , the Sloane Rangers , the rich whizzkids , women my age — who are seeing fur as a status symbol again . |
| 6 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 7 | But after seeing signs of a pick-up in American demand , he says the hotel industry might get a boost around September , on the basis that recovery here lags America by about four months . |
| 8 | Now the consequences of seeing prayer as a hallway and as a telephone are momentous . |
| 9 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 10 | Terry arrived late on Friday night so on Saturday he went to see Sarah with an invitation to tea from his mother . |
| 11 | Five months on , seeing Lisa with a plastic eye and seeing how she is , she gets so upset , I would like to have the law changed . |
| 12 | Five months on , seeing Lisa with a plastic eye and seeing how she is , she gets so upset , I 'd really like to have the law changed covering guns . |
| 13 | The group came from the south of England to see Frankie in A Night At the Music Hall at the town 's Civic Theatre . |
| 14 | He was surprised to see foreigners on a local train from El Wasta . |
| 15 | Yet at the same time , he needed each superpower to see Bucharest as a natural place for influencing the views of the other one and other players in the international game . |
| 16 | Such gestures appealed to many Romanians , as they did to Western observers anxious to see Ceauşescu as a ‘ patriot ’ and reformer . |
| 17 | He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while . |
| 18 | We are encouraged to see murder as a particular act involving a very limited range of stereotypical actors , instruments , situations , and motives . |
| 19 | So it 's wrong to see federalism in a sense as an equal partnership between the states and the , and the central government it is biased towards central government , always has been so and has in become increasingly biased towards it i in modern times . |
| 20 | ‘ I remember seeing pictures of a fish like that at school , but I 'm damned if I can remember what it was , ’ said Yanto , thoughtfully . |
| 21 | We must consider what leads young men — it is predominantly young men — to see crime as a better outlet for their abilities and energies than lawful activity . |
| 22 | To see reindeer in a natural setting visit the Cairngorms where there 's a herd of about a hundred animals . |
| 23 | Yeah , everything is photo-ops and it 's weird to see photo-ops in a war . |
| 24 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 25 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 26 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 27 | These days , enlightened employers are supposed to see alcoholism as an illness , not a vice . |
| 28 | And seeing Richard in a white coat . ’ |
| 29 | One adverse critic of Dustin 's performance was the young and eccentric English actor Victor Henry , who , on seeing Dustin in a bar after the show , emptied a glass of beer over his head . |
| 30 | ‘ I do not like to see fear in a woman 's eyes , especially a woman who places so much value in equality . |