Example sentences of "see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see Thee is the end and the beginning , |
| 2 | JEWKES : My young Levite , I 'm glad to see thee . |
| 3 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 4 | That brought tears to my eyes and I turned away so that Jeff would n't be able to see them , then fought them back . |
| 5 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 6 | I went to see them as well and they told me to fill in another form . |
| 7 | On the Sunday , late morning , I took a train up to see them . |
| 8 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
| 9 | As for embellishments , the people organising naming ceremonies seemed to be outnumbered by other policymakers whose desire was to see them progressively removed . |
| 10 | Five air-monitoring plants had been installed ( he took me to see them ) . |
| 11 | The overhead wires are so slight that you have to look hard to see them . |
| 12 | Nor does the Chancellor demand free elections for East Germans immediately , his aides say , but would first like to see them be given greater personal freedom and basic human rights . |
| 13 | These people , the pubescent schoolkid , the 45-year-old English professor , the dim college girl , we have met before , and we might be pleased to see them again , but neither they nor their predicaments quite justify so uncritical a veneration . |
| 14 | After young bands have had a couple of hit singles , with their album selling well , everybody wants to see them perform live . |
| 15 | The record buyer who has fallen in love with the band , and goes to see them play , is often disappointed by a lacklustre show . |
| 16 | I wonder if it is here that the pictures are to appear , worrying that the seats are badly arranged , pointing the wrong way , that we wo n't be able to see them properly . |
| 17 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 18 | Most governments in the old Eastern Bloc were concerned with social discipline , and they also stressed the importance of authority wielded through a strong state , but it would be wrong to see them as Conservative . |
| 19 | You have to see them first hand . |
| 20 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 21 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 22 | The thermal shock of zero degrees water is so intense no one can tell how pleased you are to see them . |
| 23 | They went to see my husband in hospital and asked him to see them when he came out . |
| 24 | Clothes are made with the family 's approval and love but also so that women can look as their families wish to see them — modest , maternal , self-effacing , or just beautiful on their terms . |
| 25 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 26 | ‘ You ought to see them . |
| 27 | She says she might take me to see them . |
| 28 | I could n't wait for the pictures to come out , I was so excited to see them . |
| 29 | I wish Marie was here to see them . |
| 30 | She 'd be real surprised to see them all sat round the table looking so happy . |