Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] to see " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the dark early days of the war , the local people had felt a strange sense of security just to see her pass by . |
| 2 | As well as inventing the thin crisp biscuit that bears his name , Sylvester Graham was also the author of one of the most amusing condemnations of sex ever to see the light of day . |
| 3 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 4 | There 's a whole range of things from the Foreign Office downwards where they have made mistakes costing many millions of pounds and we shall certainly be wanting to take evidence from this area of activity just to see what went wrong and how it can be put right and how we can prevent this sort of thing happening in the future . ’ |
| 5 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 6 | Well I only did it out of curiosity basically to see how much er , one spent in in calls with th , like Lyndsey in Hong Kong . |
| 7 | ‘ I went to Dovecote yesterday to see Maisie , ’ she said . |