Example sentences of "and [vb past] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Fleming said the reason was that Germans had a quite different medical tradition and expected to see a specialist . |
| 2 | On this particular tour they were based in Chicago for seven weeks and expected to see gangsters shooting on the sidewalks every minute . |
| 3 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 4 | When Jennie came in and asked to see what we were doing , we were giggling so much , she would say , ‘ What are yer giggling at , yer little monkeys ? ’ |
| 5 | She settled the squirrel evening cape that had belonged to her mother on top of her light summer coat , then walked in and asked to see Mrs O'Dare . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I was n't going to tell you this , but I went to the bank and asked to see the Manager . |
| 7 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 8 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 9 | I was told I was getting a direct order , but I refused to pack and asked to see the governor . |
| 10 | After work that day , 13 September , I went to the hospital and asked to see Suor Eusebia , the Mother Superior , a truly saintly woman . |
| 11 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 12 | It was quite dark when Breeze let herself into the house , and for a second she was dazzled by the electric light , and failed to see the suitcases in the hall . |
| 13 | He saw this diving towards Filfla trailing clouds of black and white smoke , but was then chased by another Messerschmitt and failed to see what happened to it . |
| 14 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
| 15 | He thought a little wistfully of Provence , tried and failed to see Edith as happy in the Hôtel Paradis , and returned to savour anew the pleasures of Ramsgate . |
| 16 | As a food and store safety officer , I felt dismayed and frustrated to see in the Journal , members of staff wearing inappropriate jewellery and , in high risk areas , all hair not kept within hats . |
| 17 | When a rat became a competent maze-runner , Lashley removed part of its cerebral cortex and checked to see whether the animal could still find its way through the maze . |
| 18 | Annunziata opened the door quietly and checked to see that Julia was asleep before walking silently to Comfort 's chair and whispering that there was a visitor for the signora downstairs . |
| 19 | Fresh supplies are delivered in a chilled van and checked to see if they are in an acceptable state , before being put straight into refrigeration . |
| 20 | The ex-Croydon Corporation E/1s were still in sound condition and lived to see another day ; they were transferred to New Cross depôt . |
| 21 | I attended one course with about 50 porn star wannabes — nearly all of them men — and got to see the way things operate both in front of and behind the camera . |
| 22 | Rhoda took to table-tapping and seances and reported seeing the ghost of Wendy hovering over her bed at night . |
| 23 | The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting . |
| 24 | At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite . |
| 25 | Slipping back to rescue the camera case , Jack was charmed and moved to see Hans quietly remove all the addresses from his anorak pocket and throw them casually on the fire at the same time as he ordered a English beer . |
| 26 | Perhaps out of guilt , Harriet discontinued her writing and stopped seeing Mill , with whom she had dined alone twice a week , in order to nurse her husband . |
| 27 | Inspired , Yeremi sprayed a stream of incandescent rainbow plasma gobbets at a defence laser which was tracking in that forbidden direction , and rejoiced to see its shield fail and the shark-snouted gun warp and drip like a lugubrious runny nose . |
| 28 | In order to bypass this traditional way of seeing society , Marx turned away from administrative and political organization and tried to see society in different , more fundamental terms . |
| 29 | Increasingly as I examined the implications of primate studies for ourselves and tried to see some convincing link between baboons and men a voice began muttering in the back of my head ‘ Hey — that 's not it at all . ’ |
| 30 | I sat up , and tried to see what this might be or mean , and saw the door of my chamber slowly open and he , the stranger , came striding in , dry now , with black curly hair and a dangerous smiling face . |