Example sentences of "see [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 4 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 5 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 7 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 8 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 9 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 10 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 11 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 12 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 15 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 16 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 17 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 18 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 19 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 20 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 21 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 22 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 23 | Well I 've seen 'em for a hundred now actually , a hundred quid . |
| 24 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 25 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 26 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've wanted to see you for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 28 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 29 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |
| 30 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |