Example sentences of "[be] see [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I was just saying to Malcolm how surprised I 'd been to see so many your men at Doreen 's funeral , but I shut up when the police arrived . |
2 | Cos even when I , I 've been to see like , you know ones I just sit there and tend to go , yeah . |
3 | We 've been seeing more ‘ corked ’ wines in Europe , too . |
4 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
5 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |
6 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
7 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
8 | I understand from Valerie — I 've been seeing quite a lot of Valerie , as I think she 's indicated — that you were visiting your husband today . |
9 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
10 | I just wish now to say I declare the Exhibition open and to say how pleased I am to see so many old friends here today . |
11 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
12 | So here we are seeing exactly how the objects would look if our eyes were sensitive to wavelengths about five times longer than they actually detect . |
13 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
14 | ‘ What we are seeing here is a well thought-out , carefully crafted attempt to hijack the environmental agenda for ulterior purposes , ’ he declared . |
15 | … You are seeing where pollution is and you are policing . |
16 | Those who saw him freeze into immobility against Mike Tyson before crashing to the canvas in the first round in July 1990 believe they are seeing now a repeat of the same symptoms . |
17 | And the cumulative effect on teachers — as we are seeing now — is to fill them with a sense of weary déjà vu when another good idea comes along , so that resistance to change becomes a reflex action , even when the teachers themselves , in their own quiet moments , know that some non-tinkering kind of change is needed , and , if they were in a different , less harassed , state , would likely welcome it . |
18 | But what we are seeing now is the fragment of the body , the body experienced minutely ; we get an art by women that insists upon bodily experience as the subject for the work , as the process by which the work is made and as the process through which it is experienced . |
19 | Maybe that is what we are seeing now . |
20 | What we are seeing now is the result of training cuts made by this Government in the funding of their TEC . |
21 | What we are seeing now is the result of training cuts made by this Government in the funding of their TEC . |
22 | ‘ What we are seeing now is a public revulsion against violence in society which is feeding through to a desire for greater sensitivity by programme makers , ’ he said . |
23 | In order to display particular native features , the traditional circle , chain and couple dance formations must be broken up and opened outwards so that the steps are seen clearly by the audience . |
24 | The problems thus posed are seen clearly in the early history of the British welfare state . |
25 | However , the standard of the specialists is not necessarily very high and , as ever , many patients are seen privately , with a resulting underestimate of the true incidence of the various diseases . |
26 | All of these phenomena , including the formation of an actin cable , are seen also in the healing of analogous types of wounds in the mouse embryo ( P.M. , J. McCluskey and J. L. , manuscript in preparation ) . |
27 | When they are quite innocent of certain events they are unfortunately blamed by the public in those areas , and they are seen as damaging the countryside and they are seen also they do not encourage the matter when you envisage the fact that they have these erm , for instance , animals — the dogs around their sites which are not noted for their behaviour , and there are many aspects of their behaviour which upset people around . |
28 | Dual-subject degrees exist in both the universities and polytechnics , but their place in each is subtly different ; in the former they are seen largely in relation to the single honours degree , which constitutes a kind of academic gold standard , whereas in the latter they come under the general rubric of ‘ combined studies ’ . |
29 | Operation ‘ Winch ’ , ' 3 April 1941. the first Hurricane IIA aircraft to be delivered to Malta are seen here on the dock of H.M.S. Ark Royal' . |
30 | Some of the squadron 's initial complement of pilots are seen here — l. to r. , back Flt.Lt . |