Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights in the Worm became brighter and all three of them could now see more clearly . |
| 2 | But , in contrast , they may partly see the ad in this way a number of times during quite a short period . |
| 3 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 4 | Warn them too that the defendant will only have to release their report if they intend to rely upon it and that therefore they may never see the report . |
| 5 | With the imposition of VAT , they may never see the upturn . |
| 6 | There will be times during a good investigative session when they need to draw several quick diagrams perhaps , or they may suddenly see connections between things which they can not yet explain but need to indicate immediately . |
| 7 | Not long now , she thought , they 'll soon see if there 's anything wrong with him . |
| 8 | They , they 're just not getting back right now , I do n't know if it 's just to be sensitive to her or whether it 's just because , you know , they 're gon na see each o I mean they live on the same road , they 'll probably see each other this weekend . |
| 9 | If you make a codicil leaving somebody out , they 'll still see the original will somebody will know that you 've changed your mind . |
| 10 | Many of the children have no idea what 's happened to the rest of their families or whether they 'll ever see them again . |
| 11 | They might never see another amplifier again ! |
| 12 | Nijaz and Sead Hukanovic had feared they might never see each other again after being parted in the savage purge of Bosnians callously dubbed ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ by the Serbs . |
| 13 | Today staff have been preparing to welcome 2 young men whom they thought they might never see again . |
| 14 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |
| 15 | Except that the mattress had smelt musty , and that as they lay in bed through those long cold mornings they could just see the spire of the Congregational church through the window . |
| 16 | They could just see the Maggon Mountains to the West . |
| 17 | They could also see the inside of the hat . |
| 18 | I was watching Sky replays of the incident over tea and snickers at half time , and heard the pundits blathering about a handball by Rod Wallace which they could clearly see happening , but I could n't . |
| 19 | PATIENTS so short-sighted they could scarcely see their car from 25 yards can now see well enough without glasses or contact lenses to read its number plate . |
| 20 | Observers around the track might not have been able to hear my orgasmic bellowing , but they could plainly see that a mental rivet had shaken loose inside my helmet . |
| 21 | They could then see how much extra care they could provide , up to the £200 ceiling . |
| 22 | They could only see an obdurate , ungrateful son , old enough to know better , selfishly concerned with his own desires and no one else 's . |
| 23 | They admitted they understood little about politics , and often they could only see , with a certain amount of reluctance , racial interpretations . |
| 24 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |
| 25 | And there used to be a a little croft croft there of long ago , and it 's er it 's all planted now with trees all round about it but I suppose they could still see where they used to be A black smith had stayed there . |
| 26 | It was beautiful how they 'd laid it down that the baby should be brought up in Dynmouth so that they could always see it about the place . |
| 27 | Then I had to open the bags so that they could actually see the fish . |
| 28 | Sometimes I thought they could actually see these people , as they talked . |
| 29 | Discussing the number of child cycling accidents , PC Dave Hogg told Darlington 's road safety forum last week that they 'd rather see children under ten pedalling on the pavement . |
| 30 | My brothers would n't let me worry about money — they 'd always see me all right . ’ |