Example sentences of "[conj] see [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 2 | Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims . |
| 3 | Why are they resisting those arguments , or seeing them as concessions that might be made during negotiations ? |
| 4 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 5 | I had heard something about it once or seen it on a map , but I could remember nothing definite . |
| 6 | Or see them through an abortion , |
| 7 | Read it as an entertaining mock gothic tale , or see it as a celebration of Scottish pride and of feminism , and a condemnation of the return to Victorian values . |
| 8 | I have 200m shares , nothing would please me more than to see them at £1 each . ’ |
| 9 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 10 | Jonathan Burnham describes Power Feminism as ‘ a manifesto for a new generation of women , offering a feminism based on powerful roles for women rather than seeing them as victims ’ . |
| 11 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 12 | This was the main value they attributed to school work experience rather than seeing it in any direct sense as preparation for engineering work . |
| 13 | Our notion of Indians has been conditioned by the frontier mentality that saw them as savages inhabiting the geographic void that civilisation would tame . |
| 14 | LAURA DAVIES breezed through her jet-lag yesterday in the same spirit that saw her through her liver and bowel transplant . |
| 15 | The present England shirt costs about £24.99 for a full-sized fan , but the little number that saw us through ( and its red going-away alternative ) is beginning to reek from all those coach trips , nights spent in railway stations and sweaty terrace pens . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're looking for people with enthusiasm that see it as an exciting career and really want to do the job , ’ enthuses Mr Queen . |
| 17 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 18 | So did you go and to see her at erm often |
| 19 | During my annual medical check-up in 1987 , Dr Dingle discovered a blood irregularity , but as I was fighting fit he said it was probably just a virus and I was to forget about it during my impending holiday and to see him on my return for a second blood test . |
| 20 | He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight . |
| 21 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 22 | The only exception to this rule was Uncle Jack , who clearly had his sights set on several more whiskies when Charlotte insisted , at Ursula 's request , on driving him to the station and seeing him aboard the London train . |
| 23 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 24 | He was fun with the children when they were younger , too , telling them stories about life in the countryside , taking them out — ‘ go all over the place with him , yes ’ — and seeing them to bed : ‘ he always give us a piggyback up the stairs to bed . ’ |
| 25 | Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment . |
| 26 | What makes the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape ? ( 194–219 ) |
| 27 | This suggests that the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape , is that in the latter case an act of recognition , or of interpretation , takes place . |
| 28 | My survey departs from sociological tradition and takes a new approach to women 's domestic situation by looking at housework as a job and seeing it as work , analogous to any other kind of work in modern society . |
| 29 | ‘ And seeing it at night … ’ |
| 30 | Then one morning I did not go early for my paper , and seeing it on the mat Cedric brought it to me . |