Example sentences of "to see [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver .
2 As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is :
3 ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’
4 I would like to see them for the Falls .
5 I would like to see them for the Shankill .
6 ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said .
7 ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December .
8 I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend
9 The public would still pay to see them at the cinema .
10 ‘ I 've to see them at the bank shortly — there 's that Buttering to be fixed , and no money for it wi'out they 'll give me a loan . ’
11 to see them at the Dinosaurs Alive and then they went to the museum .
12 You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ?
13 County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter .
14 He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season .
15 These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter .
16 Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter .
17 The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season .
18 They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood .
19 It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind .
20 Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival .
21 I 've got a full-time job now , I hardly get to see them during the week . ’
22 We do n't get to see them in the states so we have to come over here .
23 I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild .
24 She could n't look out to see them in the yard .
25 The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission .
26 Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh .
27 They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’
28 Well it 's good to see them in the bath anyway having a good good old splash about , you know ?
29 Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children .
30 ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year .
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