Example sentences of "he [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 31 | He asked to see the images in the church , of which there was so much talk . |
| 32 | He asked to see the officer involved in the investigation of the earlier charge . |
| 33 | He asked to see the horse and they took him to the stable . |
| 34 | And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant . |
| 35 | Although he was the first to use motor transport on an extensive scale in Lewis — many a time as a youngster I ran a mile to see his fleet of yellow Fords — he failed to see that the advent of the bus made it possible for the crofter to live in the country and work in the town . |
| 36 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 37 | Jones then remarked that , even if there were some commercial benefits , he failed to see how they could be vouchsafed for Utah , and reviewed the history of his own group 's work at Brigham Young University . |
| 38 | Theatre remained his great love , and there was scarcely a production of any significance he failed to see . |
| 39 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 40 | Where he was intellectually confused was that he failed to see any close connection between the economic stance of his Government and its industrial problems . |
| 41 | In doing so , he failed to see a pothole in the driveway , fell off and was injured . |
| 42 | Busacher was so riveted by the bizarre sight that he failed to see what was happening with Georg and Suzi . |
| 43 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 44 | He seemed to see himself , small and alone , in the centre of a circular chamber that expanded when he tried to see its perimeter . |
| 45 | Never one to sit behind a desk if he could help it , he tried to see the battle front for himself , and was severely wounded . |
| 46 | Maxim swamped his eyes with water time and again dulling the pain except when he tried to see . |
| 47 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 48 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 49 | He had slipped into a rather alarming habit lately of looking at every girl or woman he encountered to see how big her bust was . |
| 50 | Then they were aware of something , out there beyond the benches , which they could sense moving silently in the mist , and though he strained to see it he could not quite catch the thing in one place , for it seemed to come ant go , larger than the bench and bin , looming nearer but not quite seen , dark and grey and pointing to the sky . |
| 51 | My father preferred and still prefers to screw up his eyes and lean forward should he need to see whether the pink or blue is about to be potted . |
| 52 | My father preferred to screw up his eyes and lean forward should he need to see whether the pink or blue was about to be potted . |
| 53 | And in November at the council he let see how much trust he was ever again likely to put in the little law-givers at Westminster . |
| 54 | He has to see with his own eyes that the object he takes to be a rough piece of hemp , destined to choke the life out of him , is in fact a string of priceless pearls . |
| 55 | We affirm on the contrary that he has to see every code including his own as criticizable in terms of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 56 | ‘ He has to see a man , ’ I reminded her tonelessly . |
| 57 | The point is , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that Actaeon is not free to narrate what he has seen , but Ovid is . |
| 58 | ‘ You ca n't predict anything until he has seen the scan , but Dean is looking very doubtful , ’ England 's manager , Geoff Cooke , said . |
| 59 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 60 | Thankfully , he has seen this simple act as one of friendship rather than for what it really is — I am afraid of him and I want him on my side . |