Example sentences of "to see [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 2 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 3 | However , whatever balance between sectors one would like to see as the basis for community care policy , the private sector is here to stay and likely to expand . |
| 4 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 5 | It was enough to see off the challenge of unlucky Wimbledon in this replay at Selhurst Park . |
| 6 | Despite carding his worst round of the championship , a two over par 74 , he held his nerve to see off the challenge of defending champion Eamonn Darcy over the testing K Club course . |
| 7 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 8 | It took application and imagination to see the point of Eastern Europe , to see through the glacier to the contours underneath . |
| 9 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 10 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 11 | In any intimacy between a stronger and a weaker personality the weaker is inclined to yield even when he has the means to prevail , from a compulsion to see through the eyes of the stronger . |
| 12 | The most I 'd allowed myself to see of the inside of that room during his three months at Sleet was himself half naked ruled into a margin of light . |
| 13 | In essence , then , there is far less to see of the history of industrial landscapes than there was even a few years ago . |
| 14 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 15 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
| 16 | ‘ What an unusual boy he must be , ’ my mother remarked , ‘ if he has the sense to see beneath the exterior to the person inside . ’ |
| 17 | We are able to see into the heart of things for other people . |
| 18 | Man 's capacity to mythologize was a remnant of his pre-lapsarian capacity to see into the life of things : |
| 19 | Difficult to see into the oven during cooking . |
| 20 | Drawbacks : Difficult to see into the oven during cooking . |
| 21 | It is very difficult to see into the minds of the Government , especially when they are so concerned with the results of the Christchurch by-election and almost non-ratification of the Maastricht Treaty ! |
| 22 | At mid-height along its eastern flank is an easy terrace above a belt of limestone traversed by a cart track known as the Turbary Road ( turbary being a place where peat is dug ) , giving an exhilarating walk with open views across the valley of Kingsdale to Whernside ; there is much of interest to see along the route with three spectacular highlights . |
| 23 | All she was able to see from the back of the truck was the rounded outlines of scattered Nissen huts and , on the dark horizon , tall , wedge-shaped buildings hung with dim blue lights . |
| 24 | It is easy to see from the list of qualities appropriate to the good Beguine listed in one thirteenth-century manuscript how their piety engaged with contemplative spirituality . |
| 25 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 26 | There are some unusually good things to see inside the church of Saint-Savin : a ‘ Eucharist tower ’ twenty feet and three storeys high , Gothic in style , and made of gilded wood ; two primitive fifteenth-century panels , each containing nine scenes from the life of the church 's name-saint ; a Renaissance organ carried on what is left of a wooden gallery that once ran right across the church , from transept to transept — on the front of the instrument are three articulated mascarons , which moved their eyes and tongues as the organ played , in representation of wretched earthly sinners , grimacing at the intolerable sound of joyful , heavenly music . |
| 27 | There was no way to see inside the reactor by remote observation because a scanning device had jammed . |
| 28 | He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’ |
| 29 | It failed however , to make up for the ravages of a year of unremitting economic gloom , no matter how many green shoots the media and some pundits were determined to see in the crowds of shoppers that hit the stores on bank holiday Monday , 28th December . |
| 30 | ‘ Not a lot to see in the hold of that ratty freighter , was there ? ’ |