Example sentences of "as [conj] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a lump in her throat and an enormous yearning to say something beautiful to her father , something that could not be expressed by words , and so without quite knowing how it happened she suddenly turned her head and with a smile tossed out her arm in the air , easily , flowing , as if to see each other many more times . |
| 2 | And sometimes — ’ She looked away from Ben towards the corner of the room where a picture was hanging at a slight angle , and her head moved to one side as if to see it better . |
| 3 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 4 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |
| 5 | John smiled and glanced quickly at Ianthe , as if to see how she was taking it . |
| 6 | He held her face between his two hands and his glance penetrated her as if to see into her soul as he asked , ‘ Are you seeing any of those actors ? |
| 7 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 8 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 9 | He moved round and joined them and stared intently at the portrait as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 10 | He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought . |
| 11 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 12 | Sam looked at the revolver as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 13 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 14 | Charles found he was watching much of the play as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 15 | She sat down before the dressing-table , automatically picking up a hairbrush , but the sight of her own reflection in the mirror distracted her , and for long moments she simply stared at her own face , as if seeing it through the eyes of a stranger . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He stared at her , almost as if seeing his daughter for the very first time , his eyes boring into her , and she suffered his scrutiny as best she could . |
| 18 | But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope , muted and unreal . |
| 19 | Disney 's contribution to the built environment has superimposed North American regional vernacular architecture of the 19th and early 20th century on the Ile de France : a Pacific North West national park lodge , a South West pueblo , a Far West cowboy town , an East Coast seaside club , a South East Victorian resort , and a piece of 1930s Manhattan — albeit somewhat distorted , as if seen through the lens of a Hollywood movie camera . |
| 20 | Landscapes are treated unusually , in frescoes and also in sealstones , as if seen from the air or through a fish-eye lens . |
| 21 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
| 22 | it sits off-centre with an odd perspective , as if seen from above . |