Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to see [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitherto , the Government has tended to see parent power as a foil to ‘ vested interests ’ like teachers or local authorities . |
| 2 | Erm , I 'm going 'cos I 've got to go to see whatsit called ? |
| 3 | I remember going to see Culture Club in Australia — I was a Boy George fanatic . |
| 4 | Three , oh I do n't know , three already and you like going to see granddad ? |
| 5 | Moreover the newcomers do like to see farm workers around the village since this serves as a reminder that they do indeed live in a ‘ truly rural ’ village , as opposed to a kind of rustic suburbia . |
| 6 | Professionals do tend to see normalisation in terms of practices designed to change the individual . |
| 7 | We do tend to see liberalism and nationalism parting company . |
| 8 | Chris Taylor ( Charlie Sheen ) surveys the aftermath of a bitter night battle , surprised to have lived to see dawn , in the closing moments of Platoon . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps Sir George will get advised to see Blackadder . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The ‘ homespun ’ view of literature had tended to see literature either as an expression of an author 's personality and world-vision , or as a mimetic ( that is to say , realistic ) representation of the world in which he lived ; or , most typically , as the mixture of both which Catherine Belsey describes as ‘ expressive realism ’ ( 1980 ) . |
| 12 | He had chosen to see trade as linear rather than circular , upward rather than lateral , egotistical rather than mutual : ‘ When all nations are traders , there is nothing to be gained by trade , and it will stop first where it is brought to the greatest perfection . ’ |
| 13 | Classical theories of management have tended to see leadership as a sub-set or function of ‘ management ’ as an entity . |
| 14 | Yes , and er you have to hurry to see plot two because if people move in late on Tuesday , but erm we can see that monitor development , it er we are we are a quality builder , we 're not a clown . |
| 15 | so what you doing on it 's had to see granddad , Pat 's coming to pick you up ? |