Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 61 | 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 . |
| 62 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 63 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 64 | 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 . |
| 65 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 66 | 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 . |
| 67 | 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 . |
| 68 | Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack . |
| 69 | As we praise God for all our circumstances , seeing them in the light of his presence and love , then we become literally ‘ thankful persons ’ , transfused by a new radiance of joy and thanksgiving . |
| 70 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 71 | 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 . |
| 72 | Or perhaps it was just shock at seeing me without the gag . |
| 73 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 74 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 75 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 76 | I seen it on the News — |
| 77 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 78 | She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen . |
| 79 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 80 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 81 | You should have seen me in the dock , man . |
| 82 | He had seen them through the gates . |
| 83 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 84 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 85 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 86 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 87 | I 've seen them with the tiles . |
| 88 | 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 . |
| 89 | I 've seen them at the shop , paying their bills . |
| 90 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |