Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you use secret gestures , such as hiding your papers or holding them to you , people will assume you have something to hide : use open ones and they will not try to read your notes or see your papers . |
| 2 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 3 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 4 | The Attorney-General has no statutory right to preview programmes or to see transcripts or articles in draft , and if the rule against prior restraint were honoured in breach of confidence cases he would have to await publication before deciding whether the public interest required action . |
| 5 | If he is asked to count the buttons on his shirt or see how many colours are in the pattern of his sweater , then a look in the mirror might help with this too . |
| 6 | If you already have an account , you can talk to one of the staff in your branch or see the manager . |
| 7 | And I was fortunate : no one ever stopped me either to ask me for my identity card or to see what I had in my bag . |
| 8 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
| 9 | West Dorset 's most famous resident was Thomas Hardy and any one who has read his books or seen the films , such as Tess , will already have a vision of the landscape — probably of stark rolling countryside with constant rain . |
| 10 | In photography , I tend to work with clients who 've heard me talk or seen my work , so they know my agenda . |
| 11 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
| 12 | At the tender age of six or seven , she was then involved in court action that saw the man go to prison — with Rosemary being taken away to a place of safety , a children 's home . |
| 13 | This is a larger offset than seen for Vela , where the radio pulse leads the peak of the first γ -ray pulse by 0.126 0.006 phase . |
| 14 | By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party . |
| 15 | From the penalty spot , Rook drove into the corner for his second of the game and give his side a passage into the next round , a defeat that sees City 's interest in Cup games at an end for this season . |
| 16 | It was his cool nerve that saw his club through a nervous semi-final against Coleraine . |
| 17 | He had the natural compactness of a good ball player and a Celtic paleness of skin and darkness of hair , with big golden-brown eyes that saw everything as wildly funny or desperately serious . |
| 18 | He stared at her through eyes that saw the shadows of many lands . |
| 19 | The eyes that see ourselves see always the same creature throughout life ; in our own mind the child and the youth and the mature man are the same . |
| 20 | ‘ The eyes that see the woman in the land . |
| 21 | Christ be in all my thinking about me , Christ be in all , Christ be the with eyes that see me , with ears that hear me , Christ ever be . |
| 22 | Bear in mind that see it but it 's more likely to pass on energy units , because it 's the stronger , you know . |
| 23 | Current Wales centre Scott Gibbs demolished the claims of his rival Neil Boobyer with three crunching tackles that saw the Llanelli youngster retreat into his shell . |
| 24 | There would be a short handover period , er it would have to be administered , but from where we sit , we 're going to actually submit a bid that sees off the competition . |
| 25 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 26 | The yen 's dramatic surge after the 1985 Plaza Accord , in which leading nations agreed to weaken the dollar , sparked an overseas spending boom that saw offshore Japanese investment soar to a peak of $67.54 billion in the business year ended 31 March , 1990 . |
| 27 | Why the hell should I look at the roof except to see if there was a satellite TV dish . |
| 28 | For many journals the referee receives a typescript in the post , sends comments off , and receives no other feedback than to see the article appearing in print later . |
| 29 | Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see Eire not qualify . |
| 30 | The sawmill at Florence Court in Co Fermanagh will be the focal point , with the mill race , water wheel and saw mechanism restored ( 1pm-6pm ) . |