Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 2 | Everyone has come to see the Radio 1 Roadshow and be entertained . |
| 3 | But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late . |
| 4 | Making out they 'd gone to see the daffodils . |
| 5 | I wish I had his poise ; he ca n't have expected to see the fräulein , but has n't turned a hair . |
| 6 | Return I do n't quite unders can somebody tell me what each indiv I mean basically I would have expected to see the money earned divided by the , the number of staff telling me how much |
| 7 | A pilgrim , whether bound for Rome , or Jerusalem , or simply one of the many shrines in England , would have expected to see the relics of the saints . |
| 8 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 9 | Had it been a Saturday we should have stayed to see the cheese market . |
| 10 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 11 | I would have liked to see the bungalow demolished on TV so that people who violate the laws will know in future what can happen . ’ |
| 12 | Many others , however , ( and it 's believed this group included Orkney Islands Council ) would have liked to see the family leave South Ronaldsay altogether . |
| 13 | At a celebration dinner last night to mark the achievements of the century-long partnership between Essex County Council and Essex colleges , LEA chairman Ian Abbey toasted the future.He would have liked to see the LEA retain a greater input in further education , he said , but he wished the colleges to go forward in a spirit of goodwill . |
| 14 | Mrs Cameron said yesterday that she would have liked to see the university medical school represented on the board . |
| 15 | Only a man as blank as he would have failed to see the hollowness of my enthusiasm . |
| 16 | At last he turned to her and he could not have failed to see the anguish in her eyes . |
| 17 | He and his wife Beryl discovered churchgoers had gathered to see the two plant a beech tree to celebrate the vicar 's anniversary which falls on Easter Sunday . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've come to see the Fair , ’ I said conversationally . |
| 19 | He had a small gold cross about his neck and a quietly menacing air : ‘ I 've come to see the twins , ’ he said . |
| 20 | We 've come to see the acting , we do not wish to understand the play ! ’ |
| 21 | I think half the people who 've come to see the house suspect I 'm a sitting tenant . ’ |
| 22 | We just thought , they said , oh , we 'll show you where it is , so we drove round there , and no , he was n't there , and , so of course , we drove back there about four or five times during the day , and like we drove past there one time and there was a woman standing outside , she said like , oh what do you want , I was like , oh well , we 've come to see the house . |
| 23 | Some 15,000 spectators — mostly from California — had come to see the world 's greatest horse , who had top weight of nine stone three pounds in a field of eleven . |
| 24 | The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village . |
| 25 | He talked of his father 's psychic abilities and also of the way in which Alfred Watkins had come to see the ley mark points in terms of the old elements : fire , earth , air and water . |
| 26 | They had come to see the show and my guilt for neglecting them afterwards was eased by Pam and Kath , also at the show this evening , who entertained them in my absence . |
| 27 | We had come to see the Manx shear waters . |
| 28 | We had come to see the tomb of Isidora . |
| 29 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 30 | I saw All in Bristol and , despite a small crowd ( most of whom had come to see the support bands ) and an incompetent sound engineer , they were powerful and intense . |