Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] see [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life . |
| 2 | There are tigers there , and there 's leopards and things called sloth bears , a sort of bear , but they 're actually quite rare so er we did n't see any of those , apart from the rhinos , we went very very quietly crawled under the undergrowth and we saw them in a water hole and they were just bathing there . |
| 3 | Above all , it 's a relaxing therapy and she sees it as a major way of helping a runner ‘ warm down ’ . |
| 4 | I was like a Desperate Dan cartoon where you see him with his hair standing on end . |
| 5 | The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case . |
| 6 | Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh . |
| 7 | But certainly we er as I said , the essential point is that we are looking , looking at the capability across the board and taking into account the strategic requirement as we see it in terms of the direct threat to the U K in particular , which is obviously dramatically declined as a result of the collapse of the Warsaw pact . |
| 8 | The sunlight is falling like a gentle rain and I see it as a silent , unpolluting fuel ; which when it reaches the ground bursts forth in leaves and flowers and is the strength which upholds the trees , and if it failed , all life would fail . |
| 9 | As Robert Spencer Bernard , barrister and part-time farmer of wild boar for several years on his Buckinghamshire estate , said : ‘ A tiger is a tiger whether you see it in the London Zoo or in the Indian forests , but with a wild boar the argument is n't so simple . ’ |
| 10 | He must decide the general outline of the process as he sees it in terms of movement . |
| 11 | Catchy slogans and jingles Words and phrases that stick in your mind may well prompt you to buy a product when you see it in the supermarket . |
| 12 | Christ , I even broke out into a sweat if I saw one on TV . |
| 13 | An age barrier is not an insurmountable wall and I see it as my role to keep my parents young , a challenge indeed ! |
| 14 | It is significant in this respect that Galileo 's drawing of the moon 's surface as he saw it through a telescope contains some craters that do not in fact exist there . |
| 15 | At the James Bulger trial , a woman has told the court how she confronted two boys and the frightened toddler when she saw him with injuries , but was told he 'd fallen and was being taken home . |
| 16 | I thought he played well against England last week and I see him as a valuable member of our squad . ’ |
| 17 | The experimental context in which the behavioural understanding of cognition developed involved such a presupposition : we understand the rat 's or the pigeon 's behavioural repertoire because we see it in the context of a physical layout that we take as given . |
| 18 | So what what I 'm that that that 's the sort of basic outline and I see it as an opportunity of putting the name in front of quite a lot of schools |
| 19 | Mainly , I think , because he finally established the explanatory power of functionalism ; he showed more clearly than any of his predecessors how much more profoundly we understand man 's social life when we see it in all its functional complexity . |
| 20 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 21 | An old cathedral had a scale when you saw it from the mountain , or the plain , the silhouette . |
| 22 | She 's a big woman who 's always in a green housecoat when I see her in the evenings after the pub when , as often happens , her son and I end up at her house . |
| 23 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 24 | We will have more success at slowing world population growth if we see it as problem of enabling women in poor countries to have control over their own reproduction , which some carefully targeted development aid could go a long way towards achieving . |
| 25 | BELVILLE : O , she may be your favourite as a waiting maid but I see nothing but clumsy curtseys and awkward airs about her . |
| 26 | We tried to explain the situation as we saw it to the police . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 28 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |
| 29 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 30 | this is a good word because it well it 's not because of the associations but it stresses the femininity and that 's what a lot of the sixties feminists lost , I think was their own femininity because they saw it as man 's imposition |