Example sentences of "see [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape .
2 It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security .
3 First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy .
7 The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver .
8 Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top .
9 Sniffy was reasonably pleased to see them as the Goad men had been about to wreak vengeance on him for his revelations about the prison release dates being changed .
10 As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is :
11 ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’
12 Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend .
13 I would like to see them for the Falls .
14 I would like to see them for the Shankill .
15 By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today .
16 ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December .
17 ‘ I 've to see them at the bank shortly — there 's that Buttering to be fixed , and no money for it wi'out they 'll give me a loan . ’
18 ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said .
19 I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend
20 The public would still pay to see them at the cinema .
21 to see them at the Dinosaurs Alive and then they went to the museum .
22 You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ?
23 She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least .
24 County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter .
25 He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season .
26 They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood .
27 These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter .
28 The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season .
29 It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind .
30 Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter .
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