Example sentences of "[be] to see [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 2 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |
| 3 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 4 | I think the police should have been to see her within hours and not waited four years to see her . ’ |
| 5 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 6 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 8 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 9 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 10 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 11 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 12 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 13 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 14 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 15 | Robert said he 'd been to see you in Brno recently ; hope it was a good weekend . |
| 16 | My payment will be to see you in these clothes . |
| 17 | Perhaps er er another way of looking at this would be to see it in terms of rightist deviations and leftist deviations and one might see erm the er the moderate policies er of thirty seven to forty nine i in a sense as being erm a rightist deviation , one might see forty six forty seven as being leftist deviations and the left is seeking to overcome rightist deviations , the right seeking to overcome leftist deviations and you 've got some kind of oscillation between the two . |
| 18 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 19 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 20 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 21 | But , the best thing to do is to see him at his off where he works , he 's a tailor you know that , do you ? |
| 22 | Through the discipline of such action , that is , through karma yoga , which involves ahi sā , we come to the realization of Truth or God , for to realize God is to see Him in all that lives , and to recognize our oneness with all creation . |
| 23 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 24 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 25 | A good way to understand The Lord of the Rings in its full complexity is to see it as an attempt to reconcile two views of evil , both old , both authoritative , both living , each seemingly contradicted by the other . |
| 26 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 27 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 28 | One way of understanding the world is to see it in terms of the relationships within and between a set of interrelated systems , as described in the opening paragraph of this chapter . |
| 29 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |
| 30 | Unlike the others , she did n't rush to say how pleased she was to see him after all this time ; she did n't make polite small talk about Lucasta Redburn 's death . |