Example sentences of "we [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rarely saw its summit , lost as it would be in thick mist , but its mystery made it all the more attractive and seductive . |
| 2 | For many years we rarely saw any wild-caught Cichlasoma , but this is no longer the case . |
| 3 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 4 | Anyway , then he got sick- and I do n't remember any more : he was upstairs , and we rarely saw him . |
| 5 | We rarely see the Old Testament as a whole and little attention is paid to the system of political economy which is set up under divine instruction in the Pentateuch . |
| 6 | We rarely see him and not many people know he is here . ’ |
| 7 | We rarely see each other but since their rotten tree blew down , smashing the fence and my bulbs , it 's been hard not to . |
| 8 | In fact we rarely see each other . ’ |
| 9 | The problem here though and the show is quietly and very deliberately subtitled ‘ Lesbians take photographs ’ is that we rarely see a pairing of two sleek , longhaired and long-legged blondes . |
| 10 | In winter plumage ( as we mostly see them in Shetland ) they are brown waders with a ‘ scaly ’ appearance , a little larger than redshank . |
| 11 | If we look at our relationships with others , we merely see a reflection of our love ( or lack of love ) for ourselves . |
| 12 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 14 | We only saw the adult shearwaters at sea and they looked a bit like a small Manx shearwater , but with a brownish tinge to the upper parts . |
| 15 | We only saw the last |
| 16 | We only saw Helen and that lot did n't we ? |
| 17 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 18 | We saw herds of stags and although we never actually walked for a day when we did n't see anyone else , there was a week of walking when we only saw one other person for every day . |
| 19 | ‘ Hullo ! ’ , and this may be said so softly that it is almost inaudible and we only see the nostrils tremble . |
| 20 | I been married for 11 months and my husband works away during the week so we only see each other at weekends . |
| 21 | The picture of settlement development in the landscape , then , is a dynamic picture of great complexity , great age and constant change , but we only see it at one time . |
| 22 | We only see the worst , and some of those are fairly horrible , I can tell you . |
| 23 | Erm , they 're called the unorganised manager , erm , and the one , there are in fact four in the series , but we only see two of them . |
| 24 | We suddenly saw the wizened old man in a new light . |
| 25 | Yeah , we suddenly saw it |
| 26 | We alone see that ; the free animal |
| 27 | then we better see you before you have any more . |
| 28 | We literally saw the whales heading into the sunset as they swam towards deeper water . |
| 29 | We just saw Eddie 's tiny figure coming through the entrance in an open Land Rover before we collapsed in hysterical relief . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's mine and we just saw the dog walking off with it , ’ the golfer replied . |