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Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see [prep] " in BNC.

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1	He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life .
2	Tretyakov Director Yuriy Korolev confirmed the idea of construction with him , and now Yeltsin has effectively seen to it that the project is carried out .
3	You ca n't get anybody to come down to see about it .
4	Then Mrs St Maugham asks a friend whom she has not seen for years to lunch .
5	He will , however , not make up his mind whether to fly out Sam Torrance 's father , who he has not seen for six months , until after today 's final round in New Orleans , where he is also the defending champion .
6	GORDON Turner has launched a search for the pal he has not seen for forty years .
7	Holden 's story contains no suspense , while Lucy 's grips the reader totally ; for example she ‘ forgets ’ to inform the reader for six chapters that ‘ Dr. John ’ is in fact her cousin whom she has not seen for ten years !
8	The group broke up as they wandered off to see to their spouses , children or cups of tea .
9	And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover .
10	This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong .
11	But that I 'm so glad you 've come here to see to his personal effects this way ?
12	He 's ready to leave the table , but he 's waiting to greet Doreen , whom he has n't seen for years . ’
13	Rose sends greetings to all those Medau friends she has n't seen for some time .
14	RETIRED Gordon Turner has launched a search for the best pal he has n't seen in 40 years .
15	He also enthuses about the extraordinary steam trains he has recently seen for himself , reading from a journal which he has been writing while away .
16	Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar .
17	In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ?
18	‘ I 'd better see for myself .
19	You 'd better see for yourself . ’
20	‘ And now , I think we 'd better see about keeping a special watch on the road .
21	So you 'd better see to it that Luke and Sonny do n't go often to the village .
22	‘ Well — ’ She went to the fire and ground the kettle on top of the glowing tins , then added , ‘ As you 're takin' over , you 'd better see to it . ’
23	If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’
24	I think you 'd better see to it .
25	Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way .
26	‘ Th 'd best see to the port then , instead of blowing about under my feet , ’ Salt snapped .
27	That free kick is the best Ive ever seen by ANY player .
28	I would n't have been the first guy he 'd ever seen at that hour .
29	Sergeant Newton Barrios had investigated more than seven hundred traffic fatalities in the city of New Orleans , but this was the worst he 'd ever seen on the St Claude Avenue Bridge .
30	It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead .