Example sentences of "see [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 2 | The concern of the authorities is that a dominant firm will price aggressively in those markets where it faces actual or potential competition with the intention of seeing off the competition . |
| 3 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 4 | After the interval the all-female Mix-ups team moved into top gear seeing off the challenges of Martin 's Babes and Coshquin Exiles . |
| 5 | Midst a lot of no-balls , which helped no end , they picked their way though the furious gunfire , finding the odd boundary , encouraging each other , and finally seeing off the follow-on a ball before tea . |
| 6 | You know when we went to see about the flagstones ? |
| 7 | Then over to see about the feed stores . |
| 8 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 9 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going upstairs to see about the children . ’ |
| 11 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 12 | However , whatever balance between sectors one would like to see as the basis for community care policy , the private sector is here to stay and likely to expand . |
| 13 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 14 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 15 | Worth seeing for the performances , especially those of George T Odom , Ann D Sanders and Rich himself . |
| 16 | ‘ Secondly , I believe you will begin to see during the night the cracks opening at last in the moulds that have held British politics in sterile opposition between two major parties for so long . |
| 17 | Above them , as far as it was possible to see for the blood , he wore a striped knitted pullover over a navy jumper . |
| 18 | A drag coefficient of just 0.30 helps the Safrane to a achieve a top speed of 129mph , which is good enough to see off the Granada ( 123mph ) , but this looks distinctly average when every other car on our rivals page can top 130mph . |
| 19 | If that happens , the troops will be allowed to use their 45 heavily armoured 30-ton Warrior carriers to see off the attackers . |
| 20 | It was enough to see off the challenge of unlucky Wimbledon in this replay at Selhurst Park . |
| 21 | Despite carding his worst round of the championship , a two over par 74 , he held his nerve to see off the challenge of defending champion Eamonn Darcy over the testing K Club course . |
| 22 | And apart from Carling and Probyn , there is another Englishman desperate to see off the Wallabies — Blackheath blindside Mick Skinner who returns to Twickenham determined to show England 's management that he is still worthy of consideration . |
| 23 | Energy secretary John Wakeham , who was responsible for seeing through the electricity privatisation last year , has pledged that legislation for the sell-off will appear in a new Tory government 's first term , with a commitment in the election manifesto . |
| 24 | Aphrodite 's lie about a non-existent human father , ‘ King Otreus , of Phrygia ’ , is designed to conceal her divinity from her human mate , who is applauded for seeing through the fiction because of something uncanny in his bed-mate 's bearing — sometimes specified as her gait , her way of walking . |
| 25 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 26 | It is the vision of seeing through the inheritance of family emotions , the release of burdens imposed by the past , the healing of memories long since buried in one 's psyche . |
| 27 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 28 | However , the modern public is capable of seeing through the disguise . |
| 29 | First , he comments on the king 's astuteness in seeing through the arguments of the heretics , though he implies that for some while Clovis had been persuaded by them . |
| 30 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |