Example sentences of "[vb past] to see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 2 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 3 | They asked to see a doctor and Zahira was taken to another part of the building where , she says , she was superficially examined by a doctor and a nurse . |
| 4 | Leeds Crown Court was hearing a statement about the reaction of a porter who found her body when Robin Pask asked to see a doctor . |
| 5 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 6 | Dr Fleming said the reason was that Germans had a quite different medical tradition and expected to see a specialist . |
| 7 | ‘ I expected to see a beach ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 8 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 9 | America , Canada , Britain and Sweden are all now expected to see a fall in economic output this year ; America 's GNP is forecast to shrink by 0.4% . |
| 10 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 11 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 12 | When Psyche lighted the lamp , she expected to see a beast , but she saw a god . |
| 13 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 14 | We got to see a man . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Now look , Connie me pet , it 's bleedin' cold in the parlour , ’ complained Archie , ‘ and , anyway , I got to see a bloke about a job . ’ |
| 16 | There 's no decent men in it and there 's no nudity of men it , even when he 's in it all you got to see of him was waist-high , you got to see a clips of his bum . |
| 17 | ‘ If you promise not to tell anyone , ’ Margaret said , when she finally got to see a doctor , ‘ I nearly had it done the old way , you know , with a knitting needle , then I lost my nerve . ’ |
| 18 | In doing so , he failed to see a pothole in the driveway , fell off and was injured . |
| 19 | So intent was she on making a good impression , she failed to see a crane coming towards her . |
| 20 | Next morning the sun rose to see a variety of signs hanging , not always squarely , on the battered quarry gate . |
| 21 | I pretended to see a pin on the floor . |
| 22 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 23 | HER ROYAL HIGHNESS , Princess Margaret honoured the Queen 's Hotel in Leeds , by choosing to stay at the hotel , when a patron of the Northern Ballet , she came to see a performance of Swan Lake at Leeds Grand Theatre . |
| 24 | Probably if it had n't have been for Sister Helen and I would have never have been able to b catch the at all because I never came to see a doctor . |
| 25 | But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light . |
| 26 | Matthew Blake certainly seemed to see a Charity Marlowe that nobody else had ever seen . |
| 27 | She turned back to face David and hated to see a reflection of that bitterness in his blue eyes . |
| 28 | Relatives hated to see a sheet over the faces of their loved ones . |
| 29 | Men still hated to see a woman succeed . |
| 30 | I was in the US over the summer ( yes , I just happened to see a couple of the England games ) and it was the same there — ordinary match-going footie fans who like a drink and a bit of crack ( fun , that is ) , and who all supported loads of different teams mixing together happily enough . |