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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Any speculation would soon be forgotten or dismissed , because they 'll never again see us together , will they ? |
| 16 | I 'd much rather see a bright young woman around the place , than some of the desiccated fuddy-duddy men we meet . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd much rather see Sharp on the left , he seems to fit in there ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She tried to look down at her feet , and could only just see them . |
| 21 | It was a dark , wet , misty night , and we could only just see someone ahead of us . |
| 22 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He did this by bringing a camera up to his face , through which he could nevertheless still see the tiger 's actions . |
| 25 | There were steps from one terrace to another but Susan could not yet see where they would lead in the end . |
| 26 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 27 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 28 | It did not matter that Ben could not physically see the pages of the journal : in his mind he could turn them anyway and read the tall columns of cyphers . |
| 29 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 30 | Perhaps you could not even see the windows of the School from where he was . |