Example sentences of "[vb infin] to see [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm as many people here know and like them I have worked in a voluntary capacity and one way or another in this theatre for many years and we ca n't do without it we do n't want to see it close or any of those drastic things . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you like to see me naked ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's only that we 'd like to see you happy … ’ |
| 4 | At the moment the academy has a nearmonopoly of the subject , and I would like to see it broken , in a recognition of the traditional cultural truth that good criticism can be written by poets and novelists , and indeed by people whose professional concern is not with literature at all . |
| 5 | Could he bear to see them wired-made vulnerable to the least whim of their lords and masters ? |