Example sentences of "[verb] see [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She hates Odborough and does not want to see more of it than need be . |
| 32 | We do not want to see more knife carrying by people who are mentally ill , although that clearly affects a minority of community care cases . |
| 33 | This last view prevailed as the Commission rejected an intermediate third party status which would take account of this distinction , preferring to see all third parties in an identical legal position . |
| 34 | I had a bath , then had to wait to see this officer in charge , and because they read on my notes that I 'd barricaded , I was put on this wing like C1 . |
| 35 | We support a separate funding council , although we should prefer to see that under a Scottish Parliament . |
| 36 | With a nervous swallow he bearded the formidable young lady at the desk at the head of the room : she had always struck him as the sort of librarian who would prefer to see all the desks in her domain empty and all the books permanently under lock and key . |
| 37 | I enjoy the magazine but would prefer to see more of the subscription used for the work of the Institution . |
| 38 | Afterwards he 'd sworn he would prefer to see any child of his six foot under rather than taken for a nun . |
| 39 | However , conventionally , which is not to say correctly , modes of social scientific explanation tend to see these elements as analytically separate orders of phenomena and , accordingly , data . |
| 40 | Usually religious people tend to see these as different , Sri Ramana 's being an experience of enlightenment and awareness of the Oneness of being , whilst St Francis 's conveyed a sense of communion with God — a sense of a Presence revealing itself . |
| 41 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
| 42 | I mean do , do people find , tend to see those as being a plus or not ? you know , |
| 43 | No , they er I heard someone say that though they sort of actively encourage the use of to go to see many things like sort of sport days , erm . |
| 44 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 45 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 46 | He half expected to see some naked tourist in the corner , bound and gagged . |
| 47 | An unfinished coffin on black tressels , which stood in the middle of the shop , looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him , every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object : from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head , to drive him mad with terror . |
| 48 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 49 | they got to see that . |
| 50 | I got to see this , got to see this . |
| 51 | I got to see this , got to see this . |
| 52 | Cinemagoers meanwhile got to see more of the ‘ bum ’ than he intended . |
| 53 | Bob Henry , you must be aware of some of the criticisms which were levelled at the companies which were put out by arts associations , where they say really it 's very self-indulgent and nobody much goes to see this particular type of dance group . |
| 54 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 55 | The ex-Croydon Corporation E/1s were still in sound condition and lived to see another day ; they were transferred to New Cross depôt . |
| 56 | Others , also using lacrimal cells , failed to see such an InsP 3 -dependent entry unless they added InsP 4 ( ref. 83 ) . |
| 57 | Unfortunately for them , some of the Hurricane pilots failed to see this and stuck to their Fulmar , ignoring all signals to break away . |
| 58 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 59 | Where he was intellectually confused was that he failed to see any close connection between the economic stance of his Government and its industrial problems . |
| 60 | Get your friends round to see this one today . |