Example sentences of "see [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He waited until Berthon — with whom Rudd had never seen eye to eye — took a holiday and grafted a new front end on to Jean Behra 's car .
2 We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’
3 Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris .
4 ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends .
5 The two have never seen eye to eye apparently and although some papers called him a hothead , Horton insists he was n't going to have a go at the ref , who was given a police escort back to the dressing rooms .
6 But seen face to face , even in the informality of her own house , the absence of a spark of sexuality and , he sensed , a deep-seated reserve , made her seem less feminine and more formidable than he had expected , and she held herself stiffly as if repelling invaders of her personal space .
7 THOSE keen environmentalists , Richard Branson and Sir James Goldsmith , are no longer seeing eye to eye .
8 These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’
9 He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ .
10 Somewhere along the line , Cat and Prince 's Paisley Park organisation could n't see eye to eye .
11 Ted and I will never see eye to eye about his clients , whom he likes , respects and positively enjoys dragging over hills to bag stags , whereas I loathe these numbskulls who think killing is ‘ sport ’ .
12 The trouble is , we do n't see eye to eye , or , more correctly , our minds move in different channels .
13 Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love .
14 My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living .
15 ‘ We do n't always see eye to eye , ’ Marler reflected , blowing smoke circles , ‘ Newman and I. But he 's had a tough time , I 'll give him that . ’
16 America , Britain and France do not see eye to eye .
17 And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ?
18 But then those two do n't see eye to eye about anything these days .
19 " I do n't always see eye to eye with my father for instance about the way things are done here . "
20 Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company .
21 I do n't see eye to eye with Tod on all issues .
22 Fernand was employed by the previous owner and does not always see eye to eye with Alain on the way the estate should be managed , but no … ’
23 ‘ You ca n't pretend he 's normal and it 's no secret that he did n't see eye to eye with Alain . ’
24 They brought him back as a Caretaker to General Manager and really I did n't see eye to eye with him .
25 They do n't always see eye to eye but they respect one another .
26 Bishops were again brought in to arbitrate ; but they did not see eye to eye .
27 ‘ I had the impression that you did n't see eye to eye on how the club should be run . ’
28 Relationships were just too difficult , the sexes would never see eye to eye , it was all too much bother .
29 ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye .
30 And if he did n't do that she could n't possibly see how they would ever see eye to eye .
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