Example sentences of "[adv] see [Wh det] [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 | No flies on us , we 'll soon see what you 're like . |
| 6 | Well is that what he would see with you or would he just see what you 're wearing and , what would he see ? |
| 7 | Let's just see what I 've got . |
| 8 | Can we just see what it 'll be ? |
| 9 | Let's just see what it have been . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | With computers they can always see what you are doing . |
| 12 | It did n't move but Thomas could clearly see what she was pointing at . |
| 13 | Of course when I run it , he can also see what I 'm putting on — chorus , overdrive , top boost … |
| 14 | we may now see what it means . |
| 15 | I could n't really see what she was doing , but I did n't mind . |
| 16 | Can it really see what I 'm … ? |
| 17 | The pronunciation he knows gets in the way , so that he does n't really see what he 's written down . |
| 18 | I still do n't really see what it is you 're getting at though . ’ |
| 19 | It 's a good idea , but I do n't really see what you 're actually sort of measuring . |
| 20 | Well I ca n't really see what you can do , only have netting over that when the leaves start to fall . |
| 21 | Pretty silly , because you have n't done that piece of work , so perhaps what you would like to do if you would like to follow it with us , then I will give you back , I think I might have your survey here , and you can at least see what we 've been talking about and then on that we can write absent for this piece of work , does that make sense , good . |
| 22 | They 're all gon na go to London and campaign about something , we did n't quite see what it was . |
| 23 | Even though it was beginning to recede in her memory , Folly still could n't quite see what she had gone through as a joke . |
| 24 | ‘ You once said something about Elise 's frame of mind , and I did n't quite see what you were implying . |
| 25 | She did n't know ; it was hard to tell with this man ; she could never see what he was thinking . |
| 26 | But , yeah cos I can never see what he 's doing to you know and I think oh standing out |
| 27 | Yeah yeah now I can actually see what you look like . |
| 28 | And erm these , they had these different routines , they had one when they were swimming and this one was in the shower , could n't actually see what he was doing , and they had |