Example sentences of "[vb mod] see [pron] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had some dim idea that I should see what sort of creatures these whores were , so that I might find out what I was .
2 ‘ You should see his impersonation of Ray Bradbury , ’ Cecil added .
3 Anyway , we 'll see what erm we 'll see what sort of timing there is , okay ?
4 In a more commonplace example , it does not take much imagination to see how old people may see their contribution to society as substantially diminished and their dependence increased , at a time when technological advances present an older generation with a succession of mysteries related to daily living .
5 The few , the old guard , who could see what generations of scholars had endured for , struggled for , thus lightly swept away , were not so happy .
6 And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate .
7 We were in opposite camps , and he could no more appreciate my line of reasoning than I could see his point of view , and finally we parted .
8 That is already improving our competitiveness and we shall see its effects on job creation before much longer .
9 ‘ Well , Croydon and Cooper , you shall see me face to face soon enough and then you will know that Emily Grenfell is not a woman to be trifled with , ’ she said grimly .
10 Then area officials would see what sort of pattern was emerging .
11 ‘ Which is why none of the reporters clamouring around your office block earlier tonight will see their stories in print . ’
12 The army will also later fit Challenger with a thermal imager so that the commander and gunner can see their target at night .
13 And we always let our prospective stallions have five mares when they are two years old so we can see what type of stock they throw .
14 One can see what sort of benefit would have been taxable if the courts had decided that a tax charge could arise .
15 Visitors can see his windmill in action , and an exhibition of his main areas of experimentation : electricity , magnetism , light and sound .
16 I can see his point of view , and will take the opportunity to express my appreciation of those farmers who cheerfully give permission with no more than the usual reminder to shut the gates .
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