Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] see it " 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 | Above all , it 's a relaxing therapy and she sees it as a major way of helping a runner ‘ warm down ’ . |
| 3 | Dot did not know what Psalms were , but she felt she was beginning to understand about quiet and gentle greenness because she saw it all around her . |
| 4 | It was n't fear ; Robbie knew fear when she saw it . |
| 5 | However , what is the lynchpin as I see it , of the debate today is the deprivation of civil liberties as proposed by the Labour group . |
| 6 | Except ex-convent girls like me who recognised sexual tension when they saw it . |
| 7 | It was when she turned away from the window that she saw it . |
| 8 | When I had completed a two hour programme my friends came to my home and we saw it together . |
| 9 | I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality . |
| 10 | Philip knew concussion when he saw it . |
| 11 | The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So they leave it to the ones who do n't recognise degradation when they see it — I 've been a social worker , I know about these people — women too stupid and disorganised to — ‘ |
| 14 | So I look at my watch and I see it 's nearly midnight . |
| 15 | They were not convinced of delayed payment until they saw it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But i it 's a shame because you see it 's , it 's really down to the a lot of the advisory staff and erm yo your teacher training colleges because there was a period when , I mean , I was always very formal I mean I , I , you know |
| 18 | Vi smelled the desolation before she saw it : a mingling of dust and rubble and burning , water-doused timber . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | The main shift as he sees it is that the service has become cash limited overnight . |
| 21 | It was the customer himself who recognised professionalism when he saw it and responded accordingly . |
| 22 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 23 | ‘ As I said after the accidents at Clapham and Purley , my job as I see it is to make sure that we implement all the recommendations . ’ |
| 24 | My main job as I see it is that I 'm the exactly the same as a vicar in a civilian parish . |
| 25 | Charles was unused to moving in circles where interior designers were used ; most of his friends just accumulated clutter and wielded emulsion brushes when things got too tatty ; but he recognised the genuine article when he saw it . |
| 26 | They not only face the dangers of living in a war-torn society , but also risk torture or death for wanting to tell the truth as they see it and for refusing to be a part of the various propaganda machines that are fuelling the present conflict . |
| 27 | Although truth criteria and the rules of discourse vary across disciplines , members are obliged to speak the truth as they see it , to put it in a form that other members of the discipline will comprehend , and to mean what they say . |
| 28 | Over half of those polled do not believe John Major usually tells the truth as they see it . |
| 29 | He describes his responsibilities as a war artist as having been , ‘ only to the truth as I see it . ’ |
| 30 | He describes his responsibilities as a war artist as having been , ‘ only to the truth as I see it . ’ |