Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 2 | BP fired the first salvo yesterday and chairman Robert Horton has arranged to see Chancellor Norman Lamont to try to assess the prospects for change . |
| 3 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 4 | Everyone has come to see the Radio 1 Roadshow and be entertained . |
| 5 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Well this is , this for a market research has come to see how often they 're used . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | As they walked back upstairs Bartocci went on , ‘ Pietro Miletti has agreed to see me . |
| 9 | Hitherto , the Government has tended to see parent power as a foil to ‘ vested interests ’ like teachers or local authorities . |
| 10 | Oh , and did you know that a stranger has arrived to see you ? ’ |
| 11 | Viktor Oshchenko , a Russian diplomat in Paris who defected to the West , has refused to see officials from his country 's London embassy . |
| 12 | ‘ He has asked to see you , since you are still here . ’ |
| 13 | John Chant asked how the above was progressing and I explained that we have had initial draft typeset — he has asked to see a copy which I have passed to him today . |
| 14 | He has gone to see Madame Verveine at the nursing-home . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Sarah has gone to see about getting cards printed , but with the weekend it will be difficult . ’ |
| 16 | She looked at Edward and said casually , ‘ Joanna has gone to see a sow at Mr Jarvis 's farm . |
| 17 | Tania Probyn has gone to see her estranged husband about their two children in the late evening of September 2nd last year . |
| 18 | When he has not seen the man he has hoped to see , his long spine slackens and he falls back upon the red vinyl of the booth with his eyes closed and his foot shaking in a livid tic . |
| 19 | These inner conflicts are in part due to the person having ‘ id-impulses ’ which he or she has learned to see as wrong , and so has internalized prohibitions against acting on them . |
| 20 | If an animal does not eat a food item at one moment but does later , it may only be because it was not hungry before , not because it has learned to see it . |
| 21 | He declared that the economic and political crisis had nothing to do with the " war of laws " with the republics [ see above ; pp. 37862-63 ] , commenting : " Republican governments refuse to work in blind obedience , but the central government has failed to see this , and by inertia it has pursued its policy of diktat . " |
| 22 | Oh they would just tell you some extraordinary story they 'd seen They 'd heard Seen a ghost or heard a ghost or a something . |
| 23 | It was almost as if he 'd stopped seeing Dad at all . |
| 24 | Against her will her head turned to see what Travis was doing . |
| 25 | Leith was sorry she 'd missed seeing him , but resumed work , realising that since she was only a very small cog in a big machine Mr Massingham would be too busy to make a second visit , or remember , should he be interested in numbers , that there was one member of staff he had n't met yet . |
| 26 | But now that Gharr had taken Mala away — and had probably been enjoying her , as he 'd quaintly put it — I 'd began to see that I really had no choice . |
| 27 | But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late . |
| 28 | Making out they 'd gone to see the daffodils . |
| 29 | " She 'd gone to see her parents in Hilderbridge and I was with mine in Jackley . " |
| 30 | They 'd gone to see Somerset playing Essex , Virgin 70 not out . |