Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] to see " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that , and sh , and she goes , no I 've only come round to see John cos of his birthday you see . |
| 2 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
| 3 | And when the rangers are out on the patrol they are constantly looking around to see what has been happening around them as the seasons change and what work needs to be done . |
| 4 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 5 | The Rejects had all turned up to see me . |
| 6 | One has only to look around to see Labour government in action in London . |
| 7 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 8 | ‘ We only went there to see what British Waterways were doing , ’ said Ian . |
| 9 | We 've only popped in to see whether you would like a lift into town now , before we go , rather than go into town and then come back just in case you want |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get in to see Ratchette . |
| 11 | I said you only come round to see me cos , you know , cos I al I always wanted to come round and see you so and she wo n't . |
| 12 | So I would say , Have a go but leave it till last , when you when you 've done everything else and maybe you when you 've just checked through to see if the others are okay . |
| 13 | But thanks to some detective work by a helpful contact in Fiji , Alf traced his friends and has just flown out to see them . |
| 14 | She is asking you to leave her , and not come back to see her . ’ |
| 15 | I 've just rung up to see , I was gon na ask Jo to nip out and get me a cake and see if the advert was in , but it do it does n't actually come out , it 's like the local Chronicle here , it comes out on a Thursday night |
| 16 | She reversed in a reckless sweep , scraping the Range Rover with a hideous scream of metal , then tore off down the hairpin bends of the drive , blinking away tears furiously to see where she was going . |
| 17 | I just dropped by to see if you were managing . ’ |
| 18 | Oh no they came over to er they just came over to see us well see us see a certain of new arrival . |
| 19 | Andrew Jones and Chris Gill from Oxford are shortly to set off to see the pyramids . |
| 20 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 21 | She could not see how to see Marie-Claire and Monique , Paul-Marie and Madame , let alone the workings of the wine co-operative , the réglisserie or Protestant Nîmes . |
| 22 | Trevor said , ‘ I 'm just going upstairs to see him . |
| 23 | So he came in and he , he , he said I 'm just going down to see 's father , he 's just smashed the glass in the cold frame and I 'm I 'm sick of this ! |
| 24 | This quotation from the Muslim News shows how important the distinction is , and what misinterpretation is possible if pupils are not helped sufficiently to see it : |
| 25 | Just popping down to see . |
| 26 | it 's as simple as that well then we can go out and have a drink with you , were n't fair , we were n't gon na stop this long were we , we just popping in to see |
| 27 | I just popped up to see Sergeant Joe , did n't I ? |
| 28 | I very much hope that we will soon move forward to see permanence units which employ staff equally for their ability to work at getting a child back with natural families as for their skills in working with substitute new families . |
| 29 | Because he sat at his desk from early morning until night he was not getting around to see what was happening among the ordinary people : and many of his henchmen were using their positions of power for personal or family advantage . |
| 30 | ‘ I must apologize , ’ he began , ‘ for not coming in to see you this morning , as I said I would . |