Example sentences of "[v-ing] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it worth checking to see just how far this had gone . |
| 2 | Karen also rose , muttering something about checking to see how the meringue was coming along . |
| 3 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 4 | ‘ Checking to see how much damage has been done to it , ’ the Doctor said with some irritation . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm dying to see where you live , ’ said John . |
| 6 | I 'm dying to see how this will work ! ’ |
| 7 | The chosen person stands with her back to the rest and throws the ball over her head without looking to see where it lands . |
| 8 | As we went out through the kitchen door , I dropped my talcum powder and things and stood to one side , towards the window-sill , as if I was looking to see where they 'd gone . |
| 9 | Once I was in that job , I started looking to see where the bodies were buried . ’ |
| 10 | He was looking to see where you lived . |
| 11 | I was looking to see where the cha children were ? |
| 12 | Assessors will be looking to see how you cooperate with others and whether or not you can put the overall benefit of your own side before individual glory . |
| 13 | The agency interviewer will be looking to see how you handle yourself during the interview . |
| 14 | The Sky Sports representative said : ‘ We have not shown a lot of athletics and we will be looking to see how viewers respond . |
| 15 | Further , and although this will not be our major preoccupation , " finding out " new theories , new perspectives and new approaches , looking to see how well they work and what problems they can deal with , is as much part of research as " finding out " new facts . |
| 16 | We 're not saying the figure 's necessarily excessive , we 're simply looking to see how regeneration of West Yorkshire 's been taken into account , if at all . |
| 17 | Yeah no I was just looking to see how you fill that in you see because I , I put |
| 18 | I share the desire of my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich ( Mrs. Dunwoody ) in wanting to see not just passenger traffic but freight able to make a direct contact with the channel tunnel from all parts of the country , especially the north and the north-west . |
| 19 | Kim stared back at him , making no response , wanting to see how Spatz would deal with his intransigence ; how he would cope with this direct assault on his authority . |
| 20 | The audience will stay interested and be left wanting to see more . |
| 21 | You 'll be wanting to see as much as you can while you 're here , so just use the place as your own . |
| 22 | out of four of our members er , are women , and many of them are both the paid carers , the home helps , the care assistants and so on , but also then go home to look after the young or the er elderly relatives or or disabled , and so on and and as well as seeing , wanting to see far more support in the community |
| 23 | He seemed intent now on pushing to see how far he could go and she appeared willing to give way in everything in order to pacify . |
| 24 | going to see where you go have you ? |
| 25 | All of which made it impossible to explain exactly why she 'd been so upset to find , after arriving , tired and exhausted , at the large house in Lowndes Square , that she was going to see even less of Ross than she had in New York ? |
| 26 | That 's worth going to see an'all |
| 27 | Who are you going to see tomorrow ? |
| 28 | Yes , well obviously we erm we hope that we 've put the team together that 's going to do the job , but having said that , there 's some handy looking teams around , I think the League is going to be pretty evened out erm at the end of the day , I do n't think erm you 're going to see too many people sort of struggling at the bottom end . |
| 29 | He had a degree in fine arts from the Sorbonne ; he had further training from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , and the Beaux Arts in Paris ; he knew more about the history of jewellery design in general , and of the de Chavigny company in particular , than anyone else except the man he was going to see now . |
| 30 | We 're now going to see how the carriage can do non-selective slip ( that is where ALL the needles slip ) , and in a DIRECTIONAL way — when the carriage SLIPS one way and KNITS the other . |