Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] see [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 That you see her from the back .
2 They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army .
3 They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem
4 It was not the case that he neglected domestic issues — least of all in the period 1963 – 65 — but rather that he saw them within the larger framework of France 's relations with the world .
5 My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right .
6 I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh !
7 I shall tell you , instead , of the time Gerda and I saw you on the stage in Vienna . ’
8 He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it .
9 I would n't cos I , I ca n't if I saw you in the street I do n't know you I could n't be , I could n't be attracted to you .
10 Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in …
11 ‘ She 'll cast a spell on you if she sees you in the wood , ’ Kay warned .
12 You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point .
13 You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point .
14 If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest .
15 I would like to think you could perhaps mention to Peter if you see him in the next couple of days , I do n't know whether he pops into the office but we , it would be nice if you could if you could mention
16 If you see her in the meantime obviously mention
17 Erm when you see erm Alan John erm if you see them over the next day or two if I can just give you this er these , these little leaflets
18 Patrick climbed out first and them helped Jane down ; Collins was the last man out , and Patrick heard him murmur to the driver , " Around the block the long way , only stop if you see us on the street . "
19 The point about the shop is that erm it sells things on a medieval theme and more specifically it has we have this undertaking that if you see it in the house , you can buy it in the shop .
20 so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see .
21 So , if anybody saw me on the morning after , either hobbling up or down the stairs in St Swithin 's or leaping up and down ( very slowly ) , with an ‘ ooh , ah ’ , accompanied by much frantic rubbing of calf muscles , you know why .
22 And I 'm sure they 'll pick them up if they see them in the
23 Doubtless they describe the hard life of the villager and the poverty of his surroundings as Crabbe saw them : but he was not a peasant , as Clare was , and he saw them from the outside as harsh , ugly and wretched .
24 We reached the Bedford Square House and he saw me up the steps .
25 It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act .
26 No I know Chris told me cos he saw him on the morning at the garage then he .
27 Even if anyone saw it under the charred fringes of her robe , she could say it was homework .
28 but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration .
29 He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags .
30 But erm so , so it 's difficult to know exactly what 's happening now , and unless I see it in the office .
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