Example sentences of "see [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to see them for the Falls . |
| 2 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
| 3 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 4 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 5 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 7 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 8 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 9 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 10 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 11 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 12 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 13 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 14 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 15 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 16 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 17 | Riven could see nothing for the water in his eyes , but when the dark shape of the hull loomed up he pushed Madra towards it . |
| 18 | Gusev 's family did n't see him for the rest of the weekend . |
| 19 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 20 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 21 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 22 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 23 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |
| 24 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 25 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 26 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 27 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 28 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 29 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 30 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |