Example sentences of "see [pers pn] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
| 2 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 3 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 4 | ‘ Your godmother says she has n't seen you in an age . ’ |
| 5 | She had never seen him with an umbrella before . |
| 6 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 7 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 8 | They have seen it as an arrangement whereby some gain at the expense of others . |
| 9 | Whereas in America the unions have seen it as an intrusion on their rights to collectively bargain , even though they have n't been very active in trying to organise them themselves . |
| 10 | ‘ But now you 've seen it in an art gallery , do you think it is art ? ’ , someone else asked . |
| 11 | I was not so much gratified with the interior of the country as I had anticipated but the people tell me I have seen it in an unfavorable season , in consequence of no rain having fallen for 3 months . |
| 12 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 13 | If others can see them as an engine driving innovation around the world , rather than a sump draining it off , they may find there is much to gain . |
| 14 | However after today 's result Morland staff say no-one will ever see them as an easy target . |
| 15 | Can you see me as an Army Wife ? ’ |
| 16 | He sees them as an ‘ albums ’ band but would like them to have Top 10 hits in the singles charts . |
| 17 | Rather he sees them as an embodiment of the fears of seventeenth-century conservatives worried about the extreme forms radical religious movements were taking . |
| 18 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 19 | I 'll see you in an hour . ’ |
| 20 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 21 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |
| 22 | Can we see him without an invitation ? |
| 23 | ‘ Or do you see him as an inconvenient remnant of outmoded superstition — a bit like a gallstone — of which we must all be purged before religion can take on its true form , that is , without him . ’ |
| 24 | One ca n't see him in an ambassadorial role at all can one ? |
| 25 | They will not be expecting her , they will see her as an intruder . |
| 26 | He sees him as an idealist , likes his ‘ spark ’ . |
| 27 | In most cases the issue raises no problems , but estranged parents using the child to fight their bat ties or rebellious teenagers seeking recognition of their maturity and autonomy against over-protective or interventionist parents may see it as an important issue of principle . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's strange , and I just hope younger players do n't see it as an example that international football is something you retire from early . ’ |
| 29 | Women are , however , very often left with the responsibility because , in the same way that they have had to worry about contraception over the years , men often do n't see it as an issue for them , or are reluctant and afraid to discuss it . |
| 30 | Do you want it to be just a commercial success or do you see it as an opportunity to exhibit large or unusual works , or the sort of work you would like to do more of ? |