Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] see [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Gregory knew that was out of the question , but it was also essential that she should not see the entrance to the tunnel . |
| 2 | She leaned on a staff as tall as herself , and could not see the visitors to her fur-lined chamber , but her nearsense informed her . |
| 3 | Fatal accidents involving children on farms always make distressing reading , but Mr Boswell ca n't see an end to those horrific accidents . |
| 4 | I very much hope that we shall never see a return to those bad old days . |
| 5 | I suspect that , if he imagines a dark grizzly bear trying to stalk seals over the snow , the Bishop will immediately see the answer to his problem . |
| 6 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |