Example sentences of "see [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina Muir recalls the shock of seeing badly burned airmen being treated in the Radcliffe when doing her ‘ war-work ’ as a ward maid in the hospital . |
| 2 | One of them came to see Right Said Fred in Los Angeles and there was lighthearted talk of a collaboration . |
| 3 | Now a huge one awaited him , liberals looking for expression , eager literati to put in sculpture , worn-out hippies , anyone who wanted to see right done for once . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Cadfael , ‘ I think he trusts Winifred to see right done . |
| 5 | The British Parliament is therefore being asked to ratify a Treaty which by the terms of the Treaty of Rome is defunct and which Denmark is likely to wish to see fundamentally changed . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't like to see little 'uns ill . ’ |
| 7 | The value of a practical education I was to see strikingly illustrated on The Guardian . |
| 8 | Transport has been relatively slow to see much benefit from the information technology revolution . |
| 9 | We want to see better trained teachers , respected for their professionalism and rewarded for their crucial role in the community . |
| 10 | So just wait to see just going to the committee . |
| 11 | She looked long and intelligently at what she hated , with curiosity to see exactly chat it was , and the necessary detachment to imagine it from within and without , these two breeding a kind of knowledge that was love . |
| 12 | Between the meetings he began to operate in earnest , seeing individually spending ministers worried that Concorde would drain funds from their budgets . |
| 13 | The next section between Culver Street and Gigant Street and Guilder Lane and Pennyfarthing Street could have seen little change over a long period . |
| 14 | The larval stages occur in the gastric glands and can only be seen microscopically following processing of the gastric mucosa . |
| 15 | Knew a fellow somewhere in Evy that would n't be seen dead holding a black Polled cattle , so er he er came along to me with er farmer 's weekly , and a black Polled cow on it , and gave me a photograph of this man . |
| 16 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 17 | I 'd think that I have seen enough to say that cricket could never be the be-all-and-end-all of life for me . |
| 18 | " I 've seen enough to convince me that the only recommendation I can make to the bank is that they should withdraw all financial facilities to the Ingard group forthwith . |
| 19 | ‘ Believe me , Mrs Diggory , I have already seen enough to convince me of that ! ’ |
| 20 | I have seen enough to believe that the materials , over time , will prove to be of real help to teachers trying to solve their own problems by enabling them to see what support there is in the sharing of difficulties and by strengthening the belief that efficient discussion can lead to effective action . |
| 21 | Vologsky had not monitored all his automatic recording , but he had seen enough to know that things were really serious . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've seen enough to know that the place will be perfect for Pool . |
| 23 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
| 24 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 25 | In both cases the limitations of vocabulary should not be seen necessarily to imply any lack of ability for abstract thought : these animals are using an alien tool to communicate with a species ( us ) whose intellectual make-up is quite alien to them , so it is hardly surprising that there are comparatively few areas of common ground that can be described using human words . |
| 26 | Every Summer , visiting day trippers could be seen enviously watching the local people enjoying themselves out on the sand and wondering how the devil they got out there . |
| 27 | I have seen better looking hunting dogs . |
| 28 | Elsewhere the numbers seen together have rarely exceeded 10 to 30 birds . |
| 29 | After five minutes or so , one Messerschmitt — flown by ‘ Jochen ’ Müncheberg — was seen suddenly to break away and dive out of the sun onto the moored Sunderland in Marsaxlokk Bay . |
| 30 | The current practices , both those of manual and CAD drafting , are seen only to record the geometric entities and not their function . |