Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 2 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 3 | You wo n't see the papers again but you 'll get , I mean you should n't really see them I have |
| 4 | ‘ Publishers should no longer see the sale as a way of trying to sell the unsaleable , ’ said BML . |
| 5 | He may not even see me . |
| 6 | The opponent may move in and strike with a roundhouse kick to the head and the first-time fighter may not actually see it coming . |
| 7 | A director may have made it plain that he has a definite intention for a character , but the student may not always see this straight away . |
| 8 | The coherence , the progression , one can argue , lies in the eye of the curriculum planner rather than that of the individually different children who experience it haphazardly , often guided into a general context by the pastoral strength of their form tutor who may not always see the whole picture themselves . |
| 9 | Despite their greater poverty , lone mothers may not always see marriage or cohabitation as improving their access to resources . |
| 10 | The imaginative may not unreasonably see in these actions the source of communal meal-taking in man and its importance to social life and ritual . |
| 11 | At Feros Lighting , Parsons Street , Banbury , you 'll not only see the largest selection of domestic lighting in the area , they can also advise you on the best way to light your office , so if it 's one lightbulb , your whole home or a complete office , for the complete look go to Feros Lighting in Parsons Street , Banbury . |
| 12 | Yes I 'm glad in a way , I suppose , though I 'll still never see you if you 're off to the provinces to entertain the troops , damn their eyes . |
| 13 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 14 | ( Even if you see it in other people , you might well not see it in yourself . ) |
| 15 | The risk in doing so would be that new patients might well not see the need to do so and might feel that this would be an inappropriate intrusion into the realm of individual freedom of choice in their personal lives and , further , that life might not be much fun in the straitjacket of abstinence from all these substances as well as from their prime drugs of choice . |
| 16 | Next time you see that familiar mushroom cloud rearing up ( hopefully on your T.V. screen , not across the road ) , look at the base or stalk of the mushroom , and you 'll almost certainly see a ring of cloud rolling away horizontally from it . |
| 17 | Oh , you get the few stalwarts who come year after year , but for the majority it 's their one and only chance to be pampered , to see places they might otherwise never see . ’ |
| 18 | Any speculation would soon be forgotten or dismissed , because they 'll never again see us together , will they ? |
| 19 | I 'd rather not see him . |
| 20 | That 's er a little bit of fun in that , but er we might have a little bit of advice for you if you are preparing to receive guests you 'd rather not see over Christmas . |
| 21 | I 'd rather not see what you get up to underground . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd much rather see a bright young woman around the place , than some of the desiccated fuddy-duddy men we meet . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd much rather see Sharp on the left , he seems to fit in there ! |
| 24 | I could so clearly see her coming between you and me , between us and our poetry , and I felt furiously jealous and unhappy but tried not to show it . |
| 25 | We tried to identify distant hills , but in the dense heat haze that now hung about us , we could only just see Whernside and Penyghent . |
| 26 | She tried to look down at her feet , and could only just see them . |
| 27 | It was a dark , wet , misty night , and we could only just see someone ahead of us . |
| 28 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 29 | By the age of five I was given glasses which had no effect , serving only to restrict my field of vision , since I could only really see to read with one eye . |
| 30 | He did this by bringing a camera up to his face , through which he could nevertheless still see the tiger 's actions . |