Example sentences of "[adv] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On Wednesday the police decided to invite the press along to see just how bad the situation has become in many areas of the North East . |
| 32 | He was suddenly seeing right into the crystalline spaces of the famous poem . |
| 33 | From 1538 , Mary , widow of Francis of Orleans , duke of Longueville , and then aged twenty-three , spent her life first as the wife of James V , when she fulfilled her function as queen by producing two sons , only to see both of them die , and then as queen dowager fighting to maintain her daughter 's interests . |
| 34 | Although not a classic , this 90-minute video is worth watching if only to see again the legendary mistakes of Leeds keeper Gary Sprake , or Lee Dixon 's own goal for Arsenal against Coventry — surely the cock-up against which all future cock-ups will be judged . |
| 35 | Besides , wrote Goldberg , you have only to see where Brighton are placed in the League to wonder at the wisdom of associating with them in any capacity . |
| 36 | The games against New Zealand and Australia were interesting to watch , if only to see where South Africa really stands in world rugby . |
| 37 | A woman would quite likely have ten or twelve children , several miscarriages and still-births only to see about half her children die from common childhood ailments . |
| 38 | So erm yes , I 'm just trying to scan down to see exactly what happened , but erm it was actually erm as we all know , a major reorganisation of television schedules . |
| 39 | Presently she glanced down to see how much farther she had to go — and then nearly fell the rest of the way . |
| 40 | I 'll be popping up and down to see how you are , an' when it gets dark I 'll light the lamp . |
| 41 | I 'd phoned my father in the evening , and he did n't sound too well , so I drove down to see how he was . ’ |
| 42 | actually I , the dose that I had to take , I cut them down to see how it would go but , I must admit , I suffered from it Doctor , |
| 43 | I think for a day 's er work it 's worth assessing the three top people identified with the six outside people that I 've identified who are you know in the next division down to see how they compare . |
| 44 | Well I only did it out of curiosity basically to see how much er , one spent in in calls with th , like Lyndsey in Hong Kong . |
| 45 | She did not think them greater , failed entirely to see why she should . |
| 46 | Look inside to see how Oxford can help … |
| 47 | we 've only seen well we 've seen advertized six five six and seven |
| 48 | Power is only seen when it is put to use . |
| 49 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 50 | For me , a highlight of this time was a weekend visit from a college friend , whom I 've only seen once in the forty-three years since we left college . |
| 51 | Jerrome ( 1982 ) has explored the significance of a confidante for older women in maintaining life satisfaction , even if that person is only seen once a year . |
| 52 | A small indeterminate woman in a lightly belted black raincoat slipped in past me : she had wispy fair hair and I could see at once from whence the twins had inherited what I can only describe as their nebulousness — a sense of the nebulae or star cluster that is better seen out of the corner of the eye . |
| 53 | Almost simultaneously , under Ferdinand of Aragon , Miguel Perez de Alamàn began to specialise in the control and direction of relations with other states in a way which made him probably the nearest approach to a minister of foreign affairs hitherto seen anywhere in Europe . |
| 54 | HDTV is an effort to create very high resolution television capable of delivering a level of clarity and detail hitherto seen only in top quality cinema productions or 35 mm transparencies . |
| 55 | ‘ There is still a place for old favourites such as viscaria , a plant I loved growing as a child although it is not much seen today . |
| 56 | ‘ I think we 've all seen enough now , ladies and gentlemen . |
| 57 | The article was accompanied by that old picture you 've all seen before of Jonny Woodward on Beau Geste at Froggatt , described in the caption as a ‘ prime potential target for bolting ’ . |
| 58 | Gaitskell , Citrine , Self and Wilkinson had all seen earlier that , to be effective , the differential charge would have to be large : perhaps 1¼d . |
| 59 | Even the validity of many of the ‘ I 've been here before ’ experiences is rather doubtful as , with the growth of television and cinema , we have all seen so many places which we may later come to visit . |
| 60 | You 've obviously seen quite a lot of good painting . |