Example sentences of "[adv] see [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 2 | ‘ There was a postwar cult ’ , wrote Mrs Le Mesurier in 1931 , ‘ which took it for granted that as the devil has all the good tunes , so youth had all the good qualities ’ , and faced with the giddy enthusiasm of people such as S. F. Hatton , Basil Henriques , James Butterworth , Herbert Casson , H. S. Bryan and Robert Baden-Powell we can perhaps see what she was driving at . |
| 3 | ‘ Better see what she wants , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I 'd better see what I looked like . |
| 5 | Yer better see who it is . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better see who it is , ’ he said savagely as she rolled away from him , allowing him to ease himself off the bed to gather his trousers from the floor . |
| 7 | And I 'm gon na ask Catherine to stand up so that you can all see who she is . |
| 8 | He expressed his feelings so many times in the same way that when he could not see me I would find myself mouthing the words with him : ‘ The thing that worries me is bandits and deep sand . ’ |
| 9 | Most days they were invisible behind low cloud , but if Martha could not see them she could always feel them in the cold fury of the river and the eddying downdraughts of chill air which occasionally penetrated the valley . |
| 10 | There was movement to the side of them , but I could not see what they were doing because of the size of the boulders . |
| 11 | Stuck in Dovercourt with little prospect of continuing their education or of fulfilling their parents ' ambitions , they did not see what they had to be grateful for . |
| 12 | There is no intention in these arguments to give any sustenance to the view that corporate officials have been so successfully socialized into the ‘ way of life ’ that they can not see what they are doing or that the organizational constraints upon them were so tight as to be ‘ coercive ’ and therefore excusing . |
| 13 | It is a sad comment on our society that the Government can not see what they have done to young people and can not see the relationship between what they have done and the crime rate . |
| 14 | Frederica said she could not see what he was hesitating about , he must write The yellow Chair , it was alive , was n't it ? |
| 15 | He does not see what he so much wants to , the snow leopard , though he sees the evidence of its being which is , curiously , sufficient for him , despite his disappointment . |
| 16 | Why not see what you can do ? |
| 17 | I 'd rather not see what you get up to underground . ’ |
| 18 | In the shadow between the houses Owen could not see what it was but when they came up to it he saw that it was a man . |
| 19 | But I can not see what I would do with a home computer , one of which I am continually being urged to buy by manufacturers and retailers and by drops in prices of the things that are as near as a toucher opening up my cheque book . |
| 20 | ‘ You did not see what I saw . ’ |
| 21 | No flies on us , we 'll soon see what you 're like . |
| 22 | Well is that what he would see with you or would he just see what you 're wearing and , what would he see ? |
| 23 | Let's just see what I 've got . |
| 24 | Can we just see what it 'll be ? |
| 25 | Let's just see what it have been . |
| 26 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 27 | ‘ But from where I was out in the audience I could n't properly see what he was doing to get that amazing sound — so of course I assumed he was playing bottleneck . |
| 28 | With computers they can always see what you are doing . |
| 29 | It did n't move but Thomas could clearly see what she was pointing at . |
| 30 | I could also see something I had absolutely no wish to see at all , which was Quigley 's bottom . |