Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well this is , this for a market research has come to see how often they 're used . |
| 2 | These inner conflicts are in part due to the person having ‘ id-impulses ’ which he or she has learned to see as wrong , and so has internalized prohibitions against acting on them . |
| 3 | He 'd wanted to see how everybody was . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , certainly , ’ I said , and went to fetch some from the cold locker in the kitchen , thanking my stars that I 'd happened to see where the soft-drink cans were kept . |
| 5 | So they 're going to go see then you get other branches coming off of that one |
| 6 | I 'm going to wait to see how some other injuries settle down before I decide whether I should bring in a replacement . ’ |
| 7 | There were some steps she did remember having seen before , perhaps she would find them down there . |
| 8 | The sale of David Batty has at least made room for the introduction of Rocky ( something which I would like to have seen earlier given the injury problems of Strach ) and his performances to date have been good although showing signs of the years lay off . |
| 9 | ‘ I would like to have seen how brave he is with players like Ron Yates and Norman Hunter about . |
| 10 | I guess we 'll just have to wait to see how it works out in the US . |
| 11 | We will have to wait to see how the new system works . |
| 12 | Once I was in that job , I started looking to see where the bodies were buried . ’ |
| 13 | On the other hand the person in the street appears doomed to see ever more of the countryside becoming inaccessible , pay higher food prices , and through higher taxes pay for the storage of grain mountains , beef mountains , wine lakes and so on . |
| 14 | He would have to check to see how it happened . |
| 15 | Stuart would have liked to see where she would go next but Mum called , |
| 16 | As he kept the last Christmas of his life at Saumur , he can hardly have failed to see how many of his barons stayed away , a sure sign that they were preparing to transfer their allegiance to Richard and Philip . |
| 17 | My dear , you can not have failed to see how Lucy is leading him on . |
| 18 | Clarkson felt compelled to see just what was happening in Berlin when the celebrations began . |
| 19 | But you did want to see how little Cara 's leg is healing , did n't you ? |
| 20 | The audience will stay interested and be left wanting to see more . |
| 21 | That perhaps was the biggest shock most of the journalists had expected to see only children near the line . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've come to see where you live . ’ |
| 23 | As her love for Stephen had grown , she had come to see clearly that she should have been more open with him at the beginning . |
| 24 | Welcomed in his loneliness into the congregation of a lively evangelical parish church in a northern suburb of London , he had come to see how he might be finally delivered from inconsequence . |
| 25 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 26 | Let's just pop outside for a moment and see what we 've got to see tonight . |
| 27 | Now that the sun had come out , many of the spectators had stayed to see how the celebrities would perform after the fireworks of the professionals . |
| 28 | But for my money , I would have liked to have seen more radical analyses and a weaker Whorf-Sapir hypothesis dominating the book . |
| 29 | He had been so blinded by his need for her light that he had failed to see how deeply he stood in her shadow , and his work had been frustrated thereby . |
| 30 | I have come to see how your house is . |