Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are over 150 and he has already seen all but 40 . |
| 2 | This newly built shopping centre has already seen some of it 's customers go bust , leaving behind unlet premises . |
| 3 | This newly built shopping centre has already seen some of it 's customers go bust , leaving behind unlet premises . |
| 4 | Third , the author has generally seen little or nothing of the actual restoration work , yet , once it is finished , presumes to assess it with unshakeable authority . |
| 5 | ( Despite what they may say , everyone DOES believe in invisible things — no one doubts the existence of wind , electricity , love or toothache , even though no one has ever seen any of those things ! ) |
| 6 | Tideswell Dale has also seen some activity . |
| 7 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 8 | The problems reflect a painful transition period for Bolt Beranek as its major market — the military military , on which it depended for almost half its revenue — is slipping away while it has yet to see much return from its substantial investment in Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching or its T/10 Integrated Access Device . |
| 9 | Even Nimbus has yet to see either silicon , and is working purely from specifications . |
| 10 | In fourteen years working with sheep , farmer Gwyn Davies has never seen such a whopping lamb before : |
| 11 | She has never seen any living animal or bird at all . |
| 12 | The lexical procedure works by retrieving previously learned information about the specific letter string being read ( and so can not be used for reading non-words aloud , since the reader has never seen these before ) . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems to me , ’ he announced , ‘ we 'd better see all these pupils together . |
| 14 | We 'd only seen these in tanks before , and the initial reaction was that they were OK , but … |
| 15 | I 'd never seen such chatter , nervousness and exhilaration in the dressing room before . |
| 16 | She 'd never seen such a champion blusher . |
| 17 | I 'd never seen such rage in you before |
| 18 | they cope , I mean as far as they were concerned , as far as they were concerned they 'd never seen such , the crematorium was packed , the people was all lined outside |
| 19 | As she heaved herself up against the pillows she discovered she was wearing a man 's shirt , extra-large and striped , and she 'd never seen that before , either . |
| 20 | But she 'd never seen that someone . |
| 21 | It could have come from what happened with us , even if we 'd never seen each other again ! " |
| 22 | It was quite amazing really because we 'd never seen any of these things before . |
| 23 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 24 | Girls mainly skipping , I do n't remember ever seeing any boys skipping . |
| 25 | Sarah and Elsa with two really crap raggers are on the stage and we do n't really wan na sort of socialize with them so we , basically we 've got nowhere to see this lunchtime . |
| 26 | When we stroll past the front of the van I peep up to check the reaction , and I guess that the two cops hunched inside see these two anxious faces glancing nervously , and they decide it is n't worth climbing out the van for , and I reckon that if I was them I too would lock the doors and stay inside . |
| 27 | We tend nowadays to see these generations not merely in terms of the underlying electronic technology , but also in terms of the organization of the hardware and software involved in a computer system ; thus the transition to the fourth generation can be seen more as a change in the way that computer systems are organized ( with the use of such techniques as virtual storage and distributed intelligence ) , than as a change in the underlying technology . |
| 28 | ‘ Thought you 'd gone backstage to see that little blonde . ’ |
| 29 | Then I did n't anticipate , I was yanked out of the back of the court , I 'd gone there to see some proceedings with people I was involved with and all of a sudden the barrister for the defendant said , is a Mr in court ? |
| 30 | ‘ He went upstairs to see some rat holes … they certainly were enormous — and discovered that the room in which the food of the Gods was mixed … was in quite a disgraceful order . ’ |