Example sentences of "see [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Joanne 's seeing through his disguise made him a bit wary . |
| 2 | What 's going on behind the long face and the short , practical crop is nothing we 're going to see through his eyes . |
| 3 | The envious man is obsessively drawn to see through his rival 's eyes , the cruel man is as sensitive to a sufferer 's feelings as the compassionate ; and both are disinterested , in that it does not matter to them whether any injury they do is of benefit to themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ Among changes he has seen during his career are the introduction of new painting materials and safety methods . |
| 5 | The gifted Roberto Mancini , once seen as his twin , is flourishing without him . |
| 6 | Above : Torture victim Manoji Singh , aged 12 , seen after his arrest on suspicion of stealing a purse . |
| 7 | ‘ A man is honoured in that country , ’ he continues , ‘ according to what may be seen of his actions , conduct and zeal , since no one in India knows anything of family or lineage . ’ |
| 8 | The end result of Henry 's policy was that ruined castles were to be seen throughout his dominions , visible reminders of the Old King 's power and the penalties meted out to rebellious lords . |
| 9 | Some of the animals which he used to shoot are seen above his head |
| 10 | One patient might attend the ward as a day-patient , another may be seen with his partner for marital therapy , another may continue in individual problem-orientated therapy , and so on . |
| 11 | This may be seen in his pollution of air , soil and ocean and in his scant disregard for the balance of nature or the needs of future generations and his tendency , without restraint , to use animal creation for his own ends . |
| 12 | That attitude can be seen in his correspondence with Hanns during the making of The Soldier 's Tale . |
| 13 | At the time , Peter Alliss said it was the longest drive he 'd seen in his life . |
| 14 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 15 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 16 | Louis looked at the boy whom he had clearly never seen in his life . |
| 17 | ‘ All present and correct , sir , ’ he said and the smartest dressed man Charlie had ever seen in his life returned the salute . |
| 18 | She just was n't his type , and anyway she 'd no intention of joining the seemingly endless queue of girls happy to be seen in his company . |
| 19 | Perhaps his most popular work , the Turangalîla-symphonie , was a commission from Koussevitzky , fusing his rich and instantly identifiable harmonic language with complex Hindu rhythms : it was his study of the latter that led to his formulation of ‘ total ’ serialism , first seen in his Studies in Rhythm of 1949 . |
| 20 | Through his industry and skill , a greater variety of American forest-trees and shrubs may be seen in his gardens , than in any other place in England . ’ |
| 21 | Those who took an interest in Clara might have seen in his death the loss of an ally , because outwardly at least he appeared to be more intelligent than his wife ; at least he did not scorn in public , as she did , all efforts of the mind , and all the aims of education . |
| 22 | His style of preaching is clearly seen in his books such as A Call to the Unconverted and The Saint 's Everlasting Rest which were prepared from sermonic material . |
| 23 | Seen in his context , which was inter-war Cambridge , Leavis was never much of an innovator , and it is hard to see his critical notoriety , which reached its apogee in the 1950s and early 1960s , as anything other than a triumph of style . |
| 24 | His father turned toward him with an earnestness that Jack had never before seen in his face . |
| 25 | He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires . |
| 26 | The support of his brother 's men gave him a nexus of servants throughout the country , the value of which can be seen in his measures against Sir Edward Woodville . |
| 27 | The support of his brother 's men gave him a nexus of servants throughout the country , the value of which can be seen in his measures against Sir Edward Woodville . |
| 28 | And although Siegel 's results demonstrate convincingly that response strategies can indeed transfer from one discrimination to another , they can not show that such strategies are the sole source of the transfer effects seen in his experiment . |
| 29 | The form of Canon Wheeler could be seen in his chair below the Masaccio copy . |
| 30 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |