Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see how " in BNC.
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| 1 | One autumn day towards the end of 1973 , Bernard was driving through Oxford and , as was his wont , stopped off to see how things were at the local shop . |
| 2 | Phoned up to see how much he 'd charge me . |
| 3 | So Edward had come back to see how she had got on . |
| 4 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : In a quagmire of coalition Robin Lodge , Diplomatic Correspondent , looks abroad to see how other countries cope with pacts , backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning |
| 5 | I ask Tor , who has come across to see how I am coping , if this is normal , a guarded , off-the-cuff way of informing him that I am shit-scared and would like the weather to change . |
| 6 | I 'd better see how much |
| 7 | ‘ My reward came later when a neighbour dropped in to see how things were going . |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes the house gets on top of her , ’ Mrs Hellyer explained when she dropped in to see how the girls were managing . |
| 9 | I 'd phoned my father in the evening , and he did n't sound too well , so I drove down to see how he was . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I managed to tip half a pint of crème brûlée over the manager one evening when he came in to see how I was getting on . |
| 11 | After a while João came up to see how she was . |
| 12 | Willi came up to see how he was during the morning . |
| 13 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 14 | With coughing , he opened his eyes and began groaning which was at least some sign of progress , and I started looking about to see how we were going to get out of what appeared to be uncomfortably like a prison . |
| 15 | ‘ We are not only doing smarter things in our plants , but also looking downstream to see how we can use our products in new and more profitable ways , ’ Ewart explains . |
| 16 | Read on to see how well each pair measures up to makers ' claims . |
| 17 | I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end . |
| 18 | Look inside to see how Oxford can help … |
| 19 | So We managed and we opened up see how quick they came . |
| 20 | Look carefully to see how the patterns change in the different streets and squares . |
| 21 | Start the conversation in a normal voice , and watch carefully to see how the answer matches the question . |
| 22 | Firstly , we should look back to see how things could be improved . |
| 23 | He had managed to haul himself into a position where he gave rather more and received rather fewer orders and proceeded to look around to see how he could get out of the insurance office where economic necessity had landed him and where he had learned only a flashy taste in clothes and stationery . |
| 24 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |
| 25 | Every six months or so he turns up to see how his precious money 's being spent . |
| 26 | And then he had a wonderful form of arithmetic ; and he divided up to see how much the stack weighed . |
| 27 | Presently she glanced down to see how much farther she had to go — and then nearly fell the rest of the way . |
| 28 | it 's that much bigger so , you know just see how the top one goes and then I can copy that to the bottom |
| 29 | They heard the muffled thud as the charge blew before they set off to see how others were faring on this southern lock . |
| 30 | Commons sources confirmed that on Thursday Mrs Thatcher stood at the despatch box with a television monitor nearby to see how she appeared on television in the chamber . |