Example sentences of "[modal v] see [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I should see myself back for midday then ? ’ |
| 2 | Honestly Neil , you should see yourself . |
| 3 | He wanted to see a mixed economy of care and he considered it essential that the social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services , not as monopolistic providers . |
| 4 | It is vital that social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services — not as monopolistic providers . |
| 5 | Information is our stock-in-trade , and we should see ourselves as custodians , users , and disseminators of information . |
| 6 | In London , meanwhile , a Whitehall report citing all sorts of commercial opportunities at the British Museum has drawn a defensive response : suggestions that the museum might see itself more like a branch of the leisure industry have got the staff bristling with indignation . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll see myself out , Miss . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll see myself out . ’ |
| 9 | Apart from the numerous psycho-sexual problems which afflict humanity , the man may see himself and be regarded by society as having reached a stage of decline ; dissatisfaction with career may culminate in the forties with the realisation that he has reached the end of progress in this respect ; and so on . |
| 10 | The pure economist may see himself or herself as occupying a different space from that of the applied economist ; the ‘ scholarly ’ critic from the ‘ responsive ’ one ; the ‘ objective ’ social researcher from the ‘ interpretative ’ one ; the doctor who ‘ delivers ’ health care from the one who ‘ responds ’ to his or her patients . |
| 11 | That is how he may see himself operating as Home Secretary and Lord Chancellor , but it is not how this Government 's Home Secretary and Lord Chancellor operate . |
| 12 | It is only in the pursuit of important goals that he may see himself in a negative light , and only during the recurrence of situations similar to the childhood loss that brought the negative schema into existence . |
| 13 | The introduction of compulsory , competitive tendering through the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 and the Local Government Act 1988 means that direct service organisations may see themselves as agencies with a degree of independence from the actual client , for example , the social service department requiring the cleaning office buildings . |
| 14 | A ward sister may perceive the student who spends a lot of time chatting to a particular patient as wasting her time when there is work to do , whilst the student may see herself as legitimately practising her ‘ social interaction skills ’ , and attending to the psychological needs of the patient . |
| 15 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 16 | Already I could see myself standing there , tongue-tied and grinning sheepishly , the star of a bedroom farce which had gone badly off the rails . |
| 17 | ‘ At the time I could see myself eventually in some sort of consultancy capacity . ’ |
| 18 | No , if I could see myself as anything else it would be in a career that I was doing , but then I would n't be married . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I wish I could see myself . |
| 20 | I could see myself losing everything … ’ |
| 21 | Me — at a health farm — it 's the last place I could see myself , especially with my build which resembles that of a heavyweight wrestler but without the muscles ! |
| 22 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 23 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 24 | I mean in a way I think it 's probably the best thing that 's happened to me for a while cos I could see myself see the thing is I can I was n't ever planning to be here for even six months . |
| 25 | What 's that ? — In this nightmare , he could see himself , quite clearly , as if he was watching a film on television . |
| 26 | That night , because he could see himself , Boy thought about himself all night long . |
| 27 | He could see himself floundering across in the moonlight , exposed , a struggling dark blot against the shining whiteness . |
| 28 | He gyrated carefully so that he could see himself at all angles . |
| 29 | He liked the boy , could see himself in Michael . |
| 30 | The earliest figures of this kind were still actors or writers , but the new role rapidly increased in importance , until by the mid-twentieth century the director could see himself , and was often seen by others , as the central productive figure . |