Example sentences of "see [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 2 | I would like to see them for the Falls . |
| 3 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
| 4 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 5 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 9 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 17 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 19 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 20 | I have n't seen them for a while |
| 21 | Oh gosh , I have n't seen them for a |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Have n't seen you for a while . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Have n't seen you for a while , Mac , ’ she said , tight-lipped as she dropped the cheese rolls into a brown paper bag . |
| 25 | I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I 'd bring it in and I thought I had n't seen you for a couple of days . |
| 26 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 27 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 28 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 29 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 30 | Oh I was very , I have n't seen him for a while , being ill you do n't , but er , he was always sending messages of good will when I was in hospital . |