Example sentences of "[vb past] to see [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about . |
| 2 | ‘ I came to see what the Romans were doing , ’ I explained . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was . |
| 4 | Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was . |
| 5 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 6 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 7 | She craned to see what the man was dragging , it looked like a body . |
| 8 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 9 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 10 | The linesman ( one in particular ) would nt make a single decision but waited to see what the ref was giving before flagging . |
| 11 | ‘ I always wanted to see what the Greshorns looked like , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 12 | The Boer War was on and the first sort of major conflict erm in the period of movie history , and naturally people wanted to see what the war was like . |