Example sentences of "see to that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finlay Calder 's reasonable insistence that all of the Lions party who wished should be included on the trip , accompanied by wives or girlfriends , followed by his non-availability when this chance of expressing gratitude was rejected , have seen to that . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , your servant 's seen to that . |
| 3 | Their notions of the family as an inseparable unit would have seen to that . |
| 4 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |
| 5 | Slimmed workforces and dropping city office rents have seen to that . |
| 6 | ‘ There wo n't be a next time , I 've seen to that . |
| 7 | Modern technology has seen to that , giving them a machine to make their early morning tea and even an electronic handset to save them having to get out of their chairs in the evening to change the television channel . |
| 8 | The changing image of ‘ yuppies ’ and spiralling costs and congestion have seen to that . |
| 9 | Philip Pesaro had seen to that . |
| 10 | The news on the radio had seen to that . |
| 11 | I 've seen to that . |
| 12 | Women with their womb-smelling warmth , their talcum powder and milky breasts had seen to that in the first four weeks of life . |
| 13 | But the Foley boys were n't pampered either ; their mother had seen to that . |
| 14 | The use of Gore-Tex ( see inset above ) has seen to that . |
| 15 | Tom Tremayne had seen to that and Liza , irresponsible and hedonistic as she was , could not quite see herself leaving Harriet holding the baby while she went off to undertake some kind of training . |
| 16 | The corn laws had seen to that . |
| 17 | It 's most unlikely you could prove it , she 'll have seen to that . |
| 18 | William Joyce and the Communists between them had seen to that . |
| 19 | Alice has seen to that . " |
| 20 | But times had changed , the Great War had seen to that . |
| 21 | Grace had seen to that , but it was late and as she sat on the King 's throne in the wings , she wished with all her heart that she could be in bed . |
| 22 | Money has seen to that . |
| 23 | The bonfire had seen to that . |
| 24 | Lucenzo would have seen to that . |
| 25 | But no tealeaves in the cups ( teabags have seen to that ) . |
| 26 | An earlier phone call to Springfield from Curtis had seen to that , when the lieutenant had passed on his suspicion that the sect could in fact be a front for a Triad drugs operation . |
| 27 | Fourteen years of Tory rule has seen to that . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've already seen to that , ’ said Jill . |
| 29 | Thieves have seen to that . |
| 30 | Well , as you know , we always say the City Environmental Health Officer , and the officer responsible then does the work , we 've seen to that on our committee for years |