Example sentences of "[verb] to see [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I did n't ever want to see Phantom of the Opera , no of course I have n't have n't
2 Here you will not get a test , but they will often want to see proof of any qualifications that you may have .
3 Bullies are impressed by force and power , and may want to see proof of your new-found strength of character .
4 And she would want to see monitoring of any pubs admitting children , with premises carefully vetted before permission to let in youngsters was granted .
5 just that issue was raised that we would not want to see demolition of Franklyns that block held up by this .
6 He said have you seen Kevin out in street I said I 'm not fucking hell would I want to see Kev for ?
7 But I still think I 'd prefer to see justice in the hands of what the Americans call the law enforcement agencies .
8 I still think I 'd prefer to see justice in the hands of what the Americans call the law enforcement agencies .
9 At the very least , it says a great deal about the conspiratorial mentality which the leaders of the Communist system have created that so many defectors tend to see deception at work everywhere .
10 Organizations that adopt the marketing concept also tend to see marketing as a very diffuse activity , shared by many , and not just the preserve of a specialist group called Marketing & sales .
11 The effect of excessive development on the environment in North Yorkshire , and the second on is a relationship with places like Cleveland and West Yorkshire and the need to continue to see regeneration within those areas .
12 I want to see evidence of both of them , that is my purpose , that you may be like me .
13 So if you want to see Lundy in its relatively unspoilt present state , go soon .
14 And yet she 's jealous if I want to see Dad on my own , Caro thought .
15 Whenever one of the family is seen responding to their dog 's demands , he or she must pay 10p ( or 50p if you really want to see motivation at work ! ) into the other 's boxes .
16 Erm want to see expansion in half a million there .
17 If you want to see hell on earth go to the condemned hole the night before execution day .
18 This causes problems er , if I may say so , er but erm , it , the paragraph does n't make any reference to the date , it 's paragraph five point three , now I want to see debate in the point in erm , implementing it before the first of April .
19 We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl .
20 ( If anyone wants to see prescience in its purest form , they might read quotations from Woodcock 's writing in my obituary article about him in the Dictionary of National Biography . )
21 She also wants to see investment in building schools and hospitals , to create jobs , and a rise in taxes .
22 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 .
23 Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife .
24 But now with a fifty billion pound deficit to contend with the Chancellor is expected to see VAT on books and newspapers as a useful source of income .
25 Bobo draws attention to the role of cultural groups functioning as interpretative communities in the construction of oppositional readings of films which are regarded as reactionary by a theoreticist criticism refusing to see signification as a two-way social process .
26 More and more people came to see TV as their prime source of news .
27 ‘ You remember the two men who came to see Daddy at the old house , do n't you ? ’ said Mother .
28 Classical theories of management have tended to see leadership as a sub-set or function of ‘ management ’ as an entity .
29 ‘ She gives new insights , new ways of looking at things … she helped me begin to see pain as gift and grace . ’
30 Chamberlin ( 1980 ) tends to see advocacy for rights and advocacy or brokerage for services as opposing forces , but others ( Anthony and Blanch , 1989 ; Lecklitner and Greenberg , 1983 ; and Rappaport , 1981 ) see advocacy as part of a more general movement for improvement in the social conditions of mentally ill people .
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