Example sentences of "[adv] see for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 2 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 3 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 4 | On the way back from that holiday in Provence , the party stopped in Paris , which John was also seeing for the first time . |
| 5 | But now she looked around her , really seeing for the first time the humming activity of the fruit and vegetable market , breathing in the aromatic smells , noticing how charming the open square was , with its border of pizza stalls and cafés and bistros . |
| 6 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 7 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 9 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 10 | Sandra 's friends would all be so much younger than herself , and then she heard that the guest list comprised all age groups and included many of her old local friends whom she had n't seen for the past two years , and so she decided to go . |
| 11 | get away from here , I ca n't see for the flaming |
| 12 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |