Example sentences of "[noun pl] see them " in BNC.
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| 1 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 2 | You have to get people out from behind their desks to see them clearly . |
| 3 | Often , apprentice footballers refuse to sign professional forms seeing them , as one Midland youth put it , as ‘ bad risks ’ ; and young boxers would , in the pugilistic vernacular , ‘ swallow ’ before they had given their careers time to bloom — usually on the say-so of parents . |
| 4 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
| 5 | Either you stand outside your community , see them as non-Indians see them , which means , often enough , identifying with racist opinion , or you learn to hate people who say these things . |
| 6 | Here are soldiers and sailors , with troops of acquaintances to see them off . |
| 7 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
| 8 | All these seemed to relate to Balbinder 's needs as his parents saw them and Mr and Mrs Singh were beginning to seem happier . |
| 9 | Thus many companies see them as a threat to their holding on to their good people , and instilling corporate loyalty into new appointees . |
| 10 | Education Secretary John Patten published yesterday 's three one hour maths papers in the hope that when parents see them they will wonder what all the fuss is all about . |
| 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 | In 1913 he came under pressure in the Commons for his failure to promote an air force ; Samuel Hoare demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the government 's policy by visiting the air bases to see them for himself . |
| 13 | ‘ The dogs saw them off in no time . |
| 14 | When Sunderland came to the Manor in the league in December less than 2,000 Weirsiders saw them lose 3-0 . |
| 15 | When the debt counsellors see them the most urgent task is sorting creditors into priority |
| 16 | 4 ) In several places it was felt that the paper provided further evidence of the gap that exists between how we perceive things and how our constituents see them who , for the most part see themselves as the ‘ money raisers ’ — a role they also fulfil for several other organisations as well . |
| 17 | Of those who were visited , 44 per cent had only relatives to see them , 11 per cent were visited just by friends or neighbours and 45 per cent by both relatives and friends ; the most frequent visitor was a relative for 78 per cent and a friend or neighbour for 22 per cent . |
| 18 | The words are so small , you need special glasses to see them . |
| 19 | A five-metre scrum in the closing minutes saw them splinter the Quins pack for Charles to touch down . |
| 20 | ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’ |
| 21 | Colas sees them there and ties them to his own crook . |
| 22 | Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA . |
| 23 | Oh yes , the stock boats came just like great stacks see them coming along round . |
| 24 | Cor Sue if ever you get any tickets to see them , we 'd better go and see them . |
| 25 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 26 | My sister made the mistake of letting the children see them and you can imagine they were very soon much depleted . |
| 27 | Rather than seeing responses to questions as simple indicators of factual properties , these theorists saw them as data from which it was possible to make inferences about the dispositional and motivational character of social actors ' behaviours . |
| 28 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 29 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 30 | Although land-occupations and a rash of urban strikes were spontaneous and largely uncoordinated , rightists saw them as evidence of the revolution they had predicted would follow a Popular Front victory . |