Example sentences of "to see [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Went to see them the other week |
| 2 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 3 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 4 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 5 | — You want to see who the real winner is , then look up there . ’ |
| 6 | No matter how long he waited or how often he looked up to see who the latest arrival was , he knew in his heart of hearts it would n't be his son . |
| 7 | It was marvellous to see you the other day after so many years . |
| 8 | " David Fairfax came to see you the other day , " Matthew went on . |
| 9 | And Jimmy [ Jewel ] came to see him the other day and we walked across the road to the pub . |
| 10 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 11 | Alright , she 'll be expecting she reckons she 's due on the twenty third of March , but the hospital say it 's , it 's the twenty ninth , so it 'll be next week , I 'll have to give a ring , we went to see her the other week , to see how she was , erm we went round er one night , I rung her up to see if she 'd be in , I said right we 'll be round for an hour |
| 12 | Well you ca n't create stability , the Communist Party ca n't sort of I mean cos that 's what , sort of hindering long term investments and that how peasants do n't feel that how that things are secure , they and it 's difficult to see what the Communist Party could 've done |
| 13 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 14 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 15 | With regard to the right hon. Gentleman 's earlier remarks about opting in , I suggest that he discusses that matter with his right hon. Friends who would have signed the treaty in full without waiting to see what the economic conditions were at a later stage . |
| 16 | It may turn out that the differences are an artefact of the methods used in different laboratories , but it is difficult to see what the relevant differences may be . |
| 17 | It makes sense to see what the crucial contribution of the teacher is , and to test other models of the learning process which may from time to time be proposed to see what help they can give . |
| 18 | It will help to see what the personal ingredients are , and at what point in the arising of stress they are added in , if we take the story ‘ from the top ’ , and look at it as we might the development of a complicated chemical reaction . |
| 19 | They have only to look south of the border at some of the experiences of their former workmates within public sector bus operations to see what the alternative propositions might be . |
| 20 | The TA course 's patrolling is coming on well and the visitor has moved on to see What the junior intake is doing . |
| 21 | I was just dithering , trying to see what the new keys were , when I thought ‘ shit , unless I can send it , there s no point me carrying on ’ . |
| 22 | They want to run one up to see what the maximum speed is , well of course that 's gon na destroy it . |
| 23 | So far no action has been taken against travellers refusing requests to stub-out their cigarettes , and the campaign group is waiting to see what the next move will be . |
| 24 | As it is , I have reservations about the application of the user interface in the Windows version , and will have to wait to see what the next version brings before I can make up my mind any more firmly than I can at present . |
| 25 | After breakfast , cheered and strengthened by his new resolution , Mungo went into the yard to see what the earlier commotion had been . |