Example sentences of "[noun sg] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 32 | Now that there was a little light to see by , Angalo was trying to read it . |
| 33 | That 'll give us more light to see by . |
| 34 | The same rules for planning light fittings apply in the kitchen as everywhere else in the home : general light to see by ; work light to work by ; an accent light to show off anything particularly worth looking at . |
| 35 | Researchers within the tradition of accommodation theory have been most active in looking at the detail of " monolingual " interactions in an attempt to see exactly what it is that speakers are doing . |
| 36 | I wanted to look in a mouth to see where those tusks were anchored . |
| 37 | This is a blatantly implausible claim , of course : why would I look a word up in the dictionary to see how I use it ? |
| 38 | To build up a dictionary to see how words are used . |
| 39 | Those who win money on the horses at Kirkby Lonsdale races in Cumbria can quickly sober up if they wander down from the racecourse to see how their rates have been spent on the adjacent reaches of the river Lune , where the recently cemented banks are dramatically caving in , and attempts at bank protection appear to have made matters worse . |
| 40 | And we 'll be returning in a future programme to see how they cope . |
| 41 | Then I realized most of the visitors and all the residents were watching me and I turned my head from side to side to see why I was getting that uncomfortable my-flies-must-be-open feeling . |
| 42 | I hesitate to write such a critical letter , but frankly I am at a loss to see how your new design can in any way be seen as an improvement . |
| 43 | It is well worth spending a few minutes setting up the rails and lace carriage to see how it works even if you do n't want to knit with them at present . |
| 44 | Study this figure to see how a curve can be made up using only straight lines . |
| 45 | Joseph Seery , of Darlington , says the responses to John Cole 's column on third-world famine relief ( 24 April ) , on which I commented here on 1 May , ‘ are , I hope , a fantasy … part of an experiment to see how far imaginary outrageous statements can go before their authenticity is challenged . |
| 46 | When they were about 2 weeks old and measured about ⅓″ ( total length ) I decided to conduct an experiment to see how they would react to a shell ; I had an empty Apple Snail shell scrounged from my long-suffering dealer for just such an experiment . |
| 47 | The experimenter then waits for a certain amount of time and repeats the experiment to see how well the rat has remembered what it has to do . |
| 48 | erm but these things could be done without going to committees , without any problem whatsoever if we just have this experiment to see how it works . |
| 49 | I was just having a little experiment to see how it takes and how strong it is and I know what I 'm doing . |
| 50 | When she stole a glance to see how Marc was taking it his lips were white . |
| 51 | It was really weird erm Si was saying about , and he was going oh it , it 's gon na be really odd in the summer term to see how Luke reacts when , I mean cos Andy 's not there at cricket |
| 52 | The pattern of relationships between different family members and habitual ways of interacting need to be kept in mind to see how the family works as a system . |
| 53 | This hardly tallies with the sentiments expressed in a letter in the possession of the College in which Coleman , writing on 24 February 1813 , gracefully declined an invitation to become President of the London Veterinary Society : ‘ Gentlemen , I received your letter , and it gives me great pleasure to see so much zeal for the improvement of the veterinary art in Gentlemen , whom any & every Teacher might well be proud to call his Pupils — I shall most willingly grant the use of the College Theatre for the examination and discussion of such points as may be considered by you most important for the advancement of the Veterinary Science … you rightly observe that a number of minds concentrated on one object can not fail to improve any art far beyond the reach of any individual and I have no doubt that the Public will ultimately derive great benefits from your united exertions . |
| 54 | It was such a long trip , ’ she could n't help craning her neck to see where the old witch was . |
| 55 | In October 1970 , screenwriter Goodman and Dustin started research on the character in New York by going to a couple of universities to observe the behaviour of certain professors , presumably threatening the eggheads with violence to see how they would react . |
| 56 | It would be worth a little temporary gossip to see how he did it . |
| 57 | The reviews now being undertaken include a detailed study to see how many stations operating only an All-weather lifeboat could improve their service if they also had an Inshore lifeboat . |
| 58 | The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls . |
| 59 | This compared with 26 per cent of the women without an intimate tie with husband or boyfriend , but who reported a confiding relationship with another person ( seen at least weekly ) , and with 41 per cent of those who had a confidante seen less than weekly or who had no such relationship at all . |
| 60 | The steam hammer seen here was his best known work . |