Example sentences of "[pers pn] see how " in BNC.
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| 1 | With four boys to keep in trousers she bought a pair of pants from the store , unpicked them to see how they were put together , cut a pattern from the pieces and never looked back . |
| 2 | Safety is always paramount to us in those matters and we are in discussion with them to see how best we can help . |
| 3 | I ca n't remember now , I know I 've had a go to have a look at them to see how , to see exactly how , cos what I thought , what I thought I was gon na do was , I did n't like the furniture of the , of the speakers and when I was keeping that system I was gon na remount the speakers in the box a bit more you know decorative |
| 4 | Well , Kim Barnes joined them to see how it 's done . |
| 5 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 6 | It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’ |
| 7 | The next day Errol called me to see how I was . |
| 8 | This practical demonstration of working positively with conflict gives me confidence in your work and helps me to see how I can listen better to others . |
| 9 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 10 | But it enabled me to see how tough a negotiator Eliot himself could be . |
| 11 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 12 | I knew it would n't hurt me to see how a gallery really functions , so I took the job . |
| 13 | Oh it does hurt me to see how much the girls have spent on Christmas wrapping paper |
| 14 | Nor did I see how gods worshipped in days of continual tribal war and plunder could adjust themselves to the world where Peace is an ideal — the Christian world . |
| 15 | ‘ It was not until I saw how Messer Bartolomeo 's news was received by your friends that I realised its importance for you . ’ |
| 16 | I went along to some services and again I saw how happy people were . |
| 17 | You see , one thing that influenced me was reading about the great American champs and I saw how all the good champs were side-tracked , avoided , yet always seemed to make it late . |
| 18 | I learned everything from this first spectacle : I saw how the white ( French ) , superior , plutocratic , civilized world founded its power on the repression of populations who had suddenly become ‘ invisible ’ , like proletarians , immigrant workers , minorities who are not the right ‘ colour ’ . |
| 19 | I saw how protective he is about her , and how could he protect her better than by being married to her . |
| 20 | I saw how Brian Basham of Broad Street Associates and the barrister , Royston Webb , helped venal journalists to turn a sow 's ear into a golden purse , and how that golden purse was well received everywhere that it opened . |
| 21 | I saw how the well-documented material containing the truth about Fayed that we began to put before the DTI was received in embarrassed silence . |
| 22 | I saw how Leon Brittan , the incoming Secretary of State for Trade , was prepared to say he could find nothing wrong with the matter . |
| 23 | I saw how you looked at it . |
| 24 | ’ I saw how Gharr looked at you ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I was n't convinced until I saw how anxious Merlyn was to get hold of the box once I 'd mentioned it . ’ |
| 26 | I saw how strong electricity was . |
| 27 | I saw how kind they were to each other . |
| 28 | I saw how beautiful Irene Norton was . |
| 29 | It was an incredible shock when I saw how much . ’ |
| 30 | Er I saw how they used to do it in the after they 'd finished work , used to be at it till till nine or ten that night . |