Example sentences of "and [v-ing] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were eventually released and returned to find some of the crew busily repairing the mainsail on the dock , while the rest , with Tandri and the officers , were being bullied by lesser officials who were nosing around the hold and demanding to see their personal possessions . |
| 2 | Rincewind trailed behind , whimpering at intervals and checking to see that his head was still there . |
| 3 | Matthews ( 1962 ) suggested the use of synthesis ( the generation of all possible sentences and checking to see whether they match the input ) to apply transformational grammars . |
| 4 | IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED , NIGEL KICKED HIMSELF FOR NOT untying the bunch of flowers and looking to see if there was a card inside . |
| 5 | We are at present analysing and looking to see if the effects of privatisation will more adversely affect women than men . |
| 6 | It was like people were looking at me and guessing my age and looking to see if I had a ring on my finger . |
| 7 | When you heard there was a minister coming I was just afraid and looking to see would you see that dark black clothed individual coming . |
| 8 | ‘ You just do n't want me to carry on my business , do you ? ’ she hit back , angered at his refusal and refusing to see the rest as a compliment . |
| 9 | As soon as she got outside she examined herself carefully and trembling to see if she see if the spider was still anywhere about her . |
| 10 | In showing this place to her and wanting to see her walking in it , he was making her a deep gesture of friendship ; she was sorry that she did not care more . |
| 11 | Best probably knows he should have Cusworth on board and you have only to look at the magical ( and almost posthumous ) transformation that Best has wrought in Peter Winterbottom 's handling and passing to see what a course in sevens indoctrination can achieve . |
| 12 | Yet the facade of high fashion was highly developed by the time of his death ; there were over three miles of carriage road along the cliff top and a promenade at the foot for the elegant and aspiring to see and be seen during the height of Brighton 's mild winter and spring seasons . |
| 13 | Who can wonder if they wobble back and forth between ten-point plans for confederal re-unification and loyalty to an immobilised Nato structure ; between pounding on with monetary union and waiting to see what happens ? |
| 14 | I went with Harry in the ambulance to Maidenhead hospital , both of us swathed in blankets , Harry also in a foil-lined padded wrap used for hypothermia cases ; and from then on it was a matter of phoning and reassuring Fiona and waiting to see the extent of Harry 's injuries , which proved to be a pierced calf , entry and exit wounds both clean and clotted , with no dreadful damage in between . |
| 15 | They were restless and waiting to see the one so wicked . |
| 16 | ‘ When a painting seems bad to one , ’ he declared , ‘ one has an incontestable right , that of not looking at it and going to see others . |
| 17 | He would write to Ken about his holidays in Morocco and going to see dancing ‘ by what turned out to be the Senegal National Shitpot Company ’ . |
| 18 | The process of drawing inferences from non-experimental data is usually one of slowly elaborating a relationship between two variables , testing that it contains no spurious component due to the operation of a prior variable , and testing to see if one can pin down whether the cause influences the effect directly or through an intervening variable . |
| 19 | Science teaching , like any other , hopes to make provision for this to happen , as well as to provide the necessary detailed cross-checking and testing to see whether our intuitions have been correct . |
| 20 | He says : ‘ I think we are near the bottom and beginning to see the slope up . ’ |
| 21 | If there 's any sign of pustular spots , spreading redness , or the skin becomes broken and bleeding see your doctor . |
| 22 | People were flocking round each paper , jostling and craning to see what it said and who had signed so far . |
| 23 | A horse is put out in the paddock , and failing to see a companion shouts , ‘ Is anyone there ? ’ |
| 24 | These two tendencies — looking for natural difference and failing to see cultural difference — reinforce one another , causing men to be studied and women to be stereotyped . |
| 25 | Why are the Government sitting on their backsides and failing to see that they are paid now ? |
| 26 | More women are taking up regular exercise and coming to see it as part of their lives . |
| 27 | I was on holiday when the four-hour , much-acclaimed version of La Belle Noiseuse was released , and having seen the two-hour version , La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , I 'm rather grateful . |
| 28 | This was a very different impact , head-on against all but stationary horsemen , solid in their ranks and having seen the approach . |
| 29 | But even the most hardened , seasoned observers , aligned with no particular planning faction and having seen it all before as civil servants , could demonstrate sober conviction as to the power , promise and reasonableness of planning as a State activity . |
| 30 | Their structure was by no means on a sound footing by the 1560 's however , and heeding what must have been glowing reports from England , and having seen for themselves good samples of the ore , they were probably quite eager to invest in the English adventure . |