Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd better see for myself . |
| 2 | You 'd better see for yourself . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And now , I think we 'd better see about keeping a special watch on the road . |
| 4 | So you 'd better see to it that Luke and Sonny do n't go often to the village . |
| 5 | ‘ Well — ’ She went to the fire and ground the kettle on top of the glowing tins , then added , ‘ As you 're takin' over , you 'd better see to it . ’ |
| 6 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 7 | I think you 'd better see to it . |
| 8 | ‘ Th 'd best see to the port then , instead of blowing about under my feet , ’ Salt snapped . |
| 9 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 10 | However , it does not follow that his patients were all more ‘ abnormal ’ than those people he did not see in the consulting room . |
| 11 | And unlike Picasso Braque did not see in African art an answer to some of the problems of contemporary painting . |
| 12 | They regarded no convention , and I did not see till later that their unconvention was almost as intolerant as my parents , convention. , Helen stayed with Mrs Logan — who was awaiting a divorce — dating Edward 's first year at Lincoln . |
| 13 | ‘ I see , ’ Erika said , although she did n't see at all . |
| 14 | ‘ There was another side to him which I did n't see at first . |
| 15 | ‘ I see , ’ she murmured , when she did n't see at all . |
| 16 | and I say round Vauxhalls the only thing we did n't see at Vauxhalls was the er paint shop |
| 17 | The whole character of the game has been changed by a goal which er suddenly has brought to life in a way which we did n't see at all for the first half . |
| 18 | Every road junction has a multitude of signposts in a variety of languages , but we did n't see on that would have directed us to the Roman site . |
| 19 | The plebeians are a bit thick , as they did n't see through Caesar . |
| 20 | I did n't see in the end . |
| 21 | Or the nineteen thirties book is like one of the things that really inspired me because it showed me that you can do type that looks as though , I mean it can be composed as though in metal and not be boring — can not be , manufactured , you know hum drum , by varying the weights and by massing it , and also one of the things they do , that you see in those books that you did n't see in printing , was this size of type . |