Example sentences of "see [conj] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have never seen or heard since my knowledge of things , ’ wrote a British admiral in 1745 , ‘ that one of our ships alone , singly opposed to one of the enemy 's of equal force , has taken her , and I have been in almost every action and skirmish since the year 1718 , and yet we are daily boasting of the prowess of our Fleet . ’ |
| 2 | Third , the worrying suspicion that amongst the evidence already accumulated , the statements taken , the people interviewed , the personal relationships observed , the obiter dicta , the geography of North Oxford — that amongst all these things somewhere there was a fact that he had seen or heard but never fully recognised or understood . |
| 3 | I 've always treated everything I 've seen or heard as absolutely confidential . |
| 4 | ‘ Then why could we never go out together to places where we might be seen and recognised after we became lovers ? ’ she demanded scornfully . |
| 5 | He has seen and received and achieved things which they have not … |
| 6 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 7 | Of what we 've done and seen and thought and read , |
| 8 | Like the less diplomatically suave authority , Theodore Haecker , whom Eliot was at times glad to call on , the author of Four Quartets and editor of The Criterion required us to take Virgil as , above all , the author of the Fourth Eclogue , the pagan poet who prophesied Christianity , whose vision of human history must accordingly be seen as completed and vindicated by The Divine Comedy . |
| 9 | ‘ Culture , therefore , is seen as corrupted but convertible , usable , perhaps even redeemable by God 's grace and power ’ ( Kraft 1979:113 ) . |
| 10 | Since then , however , in spite of a hiccup of concern during the depression of the 1930s , the British constitution has been seen as settled and so constitutional debate could itself settle down . |
| 11 | Such a division is purely a literary convenience and each of the topics must be seen as intertwined and forming a complex whole . |
| 12 | Deaf people may be seen as handicapped and failing and our studies can easily be presented in this way . |
| 13 | The reason is that the vivid phrase which the investigator had chosen to ‘ flag ’ what he considered to be an issue of concern was seen as exaggerated and alarmist by academics . |
| 14 | Those possibilities are seen as restricted and , although many would not agree with Jackson 's controversial view that all blacks go through stages of white envy , all would appreciate the point that blacks resign themselves to more limited prospects . |
| 15 | They entered politics because their Baptist fundamentalism has produced certain moral and social positions which they see as threatened and which they wish to preserve or re-establish . |