Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 5 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
| 6 | The public would still pay to see them at the cinema . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
| 9 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've got a full-time job now , I hardly get to see them during the week . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 17 | She could n't look out to see them in the yard . |
| 18 | Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Well it 's good to see them in the bath anyway having a good good old splash about , you know ? |
| 21 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |
| 22 | ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year . |
| 23 | I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night . |
| 24 | Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car . |
| 25 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 26 | I could tell Gillian and Stuart were n't thrilled to see me at the airport . |
| 27 | So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend . |
| 28 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 29 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 30 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |