Example sentences of "see [pron] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That should see me for a while . |
| 2 | Riven could see nothing for the water in his eyes , but when the dark shape of the hull loomed up he pushed Madra towards it . |
| 3 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 4 | ‘ Can I see you for a minute ? ’ |
| 5 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 6 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
| 7 | I said , you may go and see him for a minute , he 's out . |
| 8 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 9 | They let us see him for a couple of minutes , and then they took us back to the prison . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Gusev 's family did n't see him for the rest of the weekend . |
| 12 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 13 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
| 14 | ‘ Well now , I could see her for a moment . |
| 15 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |