Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have a new group for whom you have to work out a syllabus , or you may want to check to see whether a revision session is necessary or not . |
| 2 | One matter which I should like to have seen included would almost certainly have merited parliamentary discussion before the inevitable dissolution of this Parliament , which will make this a short Session . |
| 3 | You should have gone to see what it was like . " |
| 4 | It was depressing to think that he was the closest friend that the old man had , and it stirred all the usual guilt feelings — should have gone to see him more often , and so on . |
| 5 | The murder must have been a severe shock to her and she would no doubt be deeply concerned over its effect on her husband ; she should have gone to see her yesterday , or at least telephoned . |
| 6 | She should have gone to see Uncle Alan he 's and alcy |
| 7 | Had it been a Saturday we should have stayed to see the cheese market . |
| 8 | Sir Anthony Meyer : I my right Hon. Friend aware that the very ambitious urban aid programme that was announced today will be warmly welcomed and that there will be special pleasure that Clwyd has not suffered at the hands of south Wales , although we should have liked to see more projects ? |
| 9 | Since you needs must drag me here , I should have liked to see this Hotspur men talk so much about . ’ |
| 10 | " Certainly , I should have come to see you , but not necessarily forced you to return with me . |
| 11 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 12 | Leaning in over the sleeping child I must have wanted to see myself as the angel , hovering in protection of an infant who was so obviously in peril . |
| 13 | Can you imagine how the owner of a fine chesterfield sofa must have felt to see it thus frogmarched away to its doom under the lashing rain ? |
| 14 | If climbers hugged themselves in delight in the knowledge that they had the monopoly on daft , death-defying behaviour , their hearts must have sunk to see people above them launch themselves off cliffs , strapped to a parachute . |
| 15 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 16 | Alternatively you might like to wait to see the proposal first as she is a most serious person who struck me as a likely author . |
| 17 | You 'll have to wait to see what happens to the Famous Five until he can read it to you in his own inept fashion . |
| 18 | I 'll write it down but you 'll have to write to see what father Christmas says . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the announcement of free time seemed to be the local signal for metal shutters to clang down over everything one might have wanted to see . |
| 20 | He might have gone to see her that Saturday night . |
| 21 | Exactly that passage from The Wanderer , for instance , is paraphrased by Aragorn in chapter 6 of The Two Towers : a candid mind might have looked to see what Tolkien could make of it . |
| 22 | While Escada 's founder , Wolfgang Ley is proud to boast of the seamless transition from one designer to the next , the fashion world might have preferred to see Mr Stolzenburg challenge some preconceptions of this label by offering something fresh and new . |
| 23 | We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight … |
| 24 | Both these cat families were in zoos , where the proximity of the male was forced on the female and where , if anywhere , one might have expected to see tom-cat aggression towards the young . |
| 25 | I said I 'd like to go see the Statue of Liberty , I promised my mother I would . |
| 26 | I 'd like to have seen that . |
| 27 | I could have gone to see her . ’ |
| 28 | He 'd have gone a different route , they could have gone to see him after . |
| 29 | ‘ Would I could have lived to see you freed from her spells , mortal ! ’ she whispered . |
| 30 | With the failure of Wyndham 's efforts , the rebellion in England became essentially a movement of Catholic recusants in the north , which few Anglicans could have wanted to see succeed , especially since the Pretender had refused to renounce his religion . |