Example sentences of "[vb pp] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As her love for Stephen had grown , she had come to see clearly that she should have been more open with him at the beginning . |
| 2 | This is the conclusion which many , approaching by this or similar routes , have come to see as inevitable , after the successive failures to prove that principles of conduct can be grounded in the existence of God , or in Kant 's Categorical Imperative validated a priori like ‘ two and two make four ’ , or in the biological facts of evolution or the psychological facts of human needs . |
| 3 | When subjects were performing a variety of other judgment tasks they may have no longer expected to see particularly risky situations and consequently would have been better centred on the scale for risk ratings . |
| 4 | That perhaps was the biggest shock most of the journalists had expected to see only children near the line . |
| 5 | The doctor can be freed to see twice as many patients by substituting for this interview a simple card , provided with a pencil , in the waiting room : |
| 6 | Got to see later today to see what arrangements we can make . |
| 7 | Let's just pop outside for a moment and see what we 've got to see tonight . |
| 8 | I , I think Chairman that as , as we come out of the recession an and th that the overall erm level er quantity of development taking place increases , then we are almost bound to see perhaps more affordable housing erm in absolute terms , although I do n't see any opportunity of there being a a major hiccup in proportional terms , so I , I , like you , I think I remain er pessimistic er regarding the , the , the overview , although we might see er a turning up of the er of the graph having been bumping along the bottom for a little time a little while . |
| 9 | Clarkson felt compelled to see just what was happening in Berlin when the celebrations began . |
| 10 | His eyes had long been trained to see deep into the flat light of the desert . |
| 11 | Pupils have sometimes asked to see again particular slides , or overhead transparencies , while checking a hunch or clarifying their recollections , and this was one reason why in Organizing resources it was recommended that they be kept in the library resource centre or some other suitable place after use , properly indexed . |
| 12 | On the other hand the person in the street appears doomed to see ever more of the countryside becoming inaccessible , pay higher food prices , and through higher taxes pay for the storage of grain mountains , beef mountains , wine lakes and so on . |
| 13 | These inner conflicts are in part due to the person having ‘ id-impulses ’ which he or she has learned to see as wrong , and so has internalized prohibitions against acting on them . |
| 14 | They will be data that parents have never been allowed to see before . |
| 15 | In the meantime it is essential not to risk a further pregnancy and other contraceptive measures must be taken see above . |
| 16 | In general , those areas have not been studied to see either how they evolved to their final pre-enclosure state or how they were utilised by surrounding settlements . |
| 17 | Anna 's energy , too , proved inexhaustible ; she was determined to see as much as they could possibly crowd in — even the little church where Robin was reputed to have married Maid Marian . |
| 18 | Yeah , he , he 'd come away I think rather happy I he , he nev , you know he begun to see here |
| 19 | It was quite a busy week , going to the concerts and the theatre and visiting friends again , as well as seeing some we had n't managed to see earlier , such as Maria and Mike who 'd just had their second baby , and Robert ( Easting ) and Christine who had also just had a baby . |