Example sentences of "to see it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I have to admit Mr Graham has a point here , but all I can say is that after one has been in the profession as long as one has , one is able to judge intuitively the depth of a man 's professionalism without having to see it under pressure .
2 ‘ I 'd wanted to see it of course , but I also wondered why he was so desperate to get here .
3 It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope .
4 ‘ Most of them preferred to see it at home .
5 More women are taking up regular exercise and coming to see it as part of their lives .
6 I agree wholeheartedly , with what we were saying , what we do n't want to see is a whole one house block in the countryside , he wants to see it as part of a farmstead and order to prove that it 's going to be part of a farmstead , the buildings should be prerequisite to go up first before the house does .
7 Certainly it would be unwise to see it as proof of understanding or acceptance .
8 We have no option but to see it as movement from left to right .
9 Evaluation of the McClellan system is difficult because there have been so few opportunities to see it in operation .
10 She had been lucky to see it in Vogue and to find it available in Harrods .
11 If they think of history , it may be hard not to see it in dressing-up terms from telly watching .
12 I had conceived my fictional , pastoral church within which I now spent so much of my time during an imaging session at the Centre , but I had yet to see it in reality .
13 Several modifications have been suggested , but unfortunately there was no snow for the Aviemore race so I 've yet to see it in action .
14 MAY 1993 During the Khmelnitski exchange visit to Hunterston great interest was shown in TOP and the Director and Deputy Director of Khmelnitski NPP sat in on a team meeting to see it in action .
15 It 's nice to see it in action .
16 You must have a pre-arranged signal and I 'd like to see it in action . ’
17 This was speedily agreed , but the Headmaster was not able to see it in use himself , for in July 1902 he announced to the Governors that he had been offered — and intended to accept — a small country living , a " less onerous position " .
18 It was one thing for Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , pampered beauty , to contemplate the horrors of poverty from the relative comfort of Vetch Street , but to see it in practice , that was quite another thing .
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