Example sentences of "[adv] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 2 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 3 | ‘ I was crazy to see a girl naked , and especially to see between her legs . |
| 4 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 5 | Some protistans are just large enough to see with the naked eye . |
| 6 | ‘ Once the kids got old enough to see for themselves what he was like , they packed their bags and left . |
| 7 | A drag coefficient of just 0.30 helps the Safrane to a achieve a top speed of 129mph , which is good enough to see off the Granada ( 123mph ) , but this looks distinctly average when every other car on our rivals page can top 130mph . |
| 8 | His only problem was , would he survive long enough to see through what was in some ways the most monumental task he had yet set himself ? |
| 9 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 10 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 11 | Looking back over this early venture , it is easy enough to see in it the seeds of what was to come . |
| 12 | Home video shows him enjoying a family Christmas but detectives believe he did n't live long enough to see in the New Year . |
| 13 | From this house-painter , he learnt there were other deaf people , and that there was a society in Leeds , so he went along to see for himself . |
| 14 | Did he ever come not merely to see as a possibility but actually to possess a conviction of what can be called the benign indifference of the universe ? |
| 15 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 16 | You ca n't get anybody to come down to see about it . |
| 17 | While fitting the rear offside wheel back on to Miss Clinton 's car , Jenny 's daddy had been called away suddenly to see to a tractor that had broken down on Farmer Pullen 's farm . |
| 18 | Monica asked , already sullen and hopeless , apparently seeing from Alice 's face that there was no news . |
| 19 | He is probably also right when he says that he is only seen as a Spanish artist because his interest lies in Spanish art , instead of in French art ‘ like everyone else' : in other words , within the accepted categories there is no room for a Mexican who is interested in Spanish art . ' |
| 20 | Cerecloth , a waxed unbleached linen — nowadays only seen as the protective sheet between the top of an altar and the fair linen — was rarely used for shrouds and is more associated with the wrapping of embalmed corpses , having been used as an adjunct to such hygienic treatment . |
| 21 | Each national economy is not only seen as part of that world economic ( and social ) system , it is treated as subordinate to its global forces . |
| 22 | Thus , the MSc in Education is not only seen as a regular part of the national system of educational in-service education in Scotland , but it has a strong international appeal . |
| 23 | Grandma was really slagging her off were n't she Maureen Lipman , oh god , yeah , oh I do n't like her , she has too many programmes , I 've only seen about one |
| 24 | Usually only seen at night , the badger is well established in quiet urban areas . |
| 25 | The man was in the act of turning a page , and , in so doing , he momentarily exposed its front cover , which Harry had , till now , only seen at a distance . |
| 26 | It is only on these rare occasions that I see zander fighting deep down in the water for most are only seen at the netting stage due to the colour of the water that they are generally caught in . |
| 27 | In some cases gastric metaplasia was only seen at the tips of ( stunted ) villi ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 28 | Unlike the trams , they are only seen during the summer season . |
| 29 | It was a world beyond my wildest dreams ; one I had only seen on celluloid in the cinema at Fontanellato . |
| 30 | The organism was only seen on villous epithelium . |