Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She ; s come to make a hit , she should be so lucky , ’ the trio had joked as a nervous Kylie had sat patiently waiting to see them . |
| 2 | This account of how a sturdy and friendly young American wins the heart of the irascible and hostile Earl of Dorincourt , the grandfather who has hitherto refused to see him , acquired a largely undeserved reputation for sentimentality . |
| 3 | The Commission has long wished to see greater industrial cooperation across frontiers . |
| 4 | He has only come to see if we want any meat , which will be coming into the shop tomorrow . |
| 5 | Perhaps he has just waited to see what was emerging and then stepped in quickly to take the initiative and carry forward the proposal which he has sensed is about to emerge . |
| 6 | She has dismantled and unstitched my slatted blind single-clawed , and has just arrived to see what she can do here . |
| 7 | Family doctors are trained in the art of discovering what the patient has really come to see them about . |
| 8 | I 've a fair idea , ’ and here he smiled a benign leer which long ago Mary had learned to repulse but still — unawares — could cause her to coil up in herself in shame , ‘ they 've come here express to see the Beauty . ’ |
| 9 | Many former refugee children report never having seen a Bloomsbury House representative . |
| 10 | As for you , you 'd better come to see me this afternoon . |
| 11 | We happened to meet up that very night , at The Marquee where we 'd all gone to see Thin Lizzy . |
| 12 | In the end , he 'd just had to see . |
| 13 | He said he 'd always wanted to see St Matthew 's . ’ |
| 14 | I debated whether to call on him to kill him for his slanders before I came here to try to see her , and ask her to have me back — if you think I would make her a suitable husband , that is . |
| 15 | But I was also glad he 'd never asked to see any of mine . |
| 16 | Yanto could not recollect ever having seen him out of a boiler suit . |
| 17 | Please , let it not be some man she had slept with and now could not even remember ever having seen before in her life . |
| 18 | I could not remember ever having seen one of his poems in The New Yorker , but it was a magazine I saw only occasionally in those days . |
| 19 | Francis could n't remember ever having seen anyone so angry . |
| 20 | ( Rapidly ) Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you have n't the faintest idea how to spell the word — " wife " — or " house " — because when you write it down you just ca n't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before … ? |
| 21 | Clare was more brittle and self-contained than Caro could remember ever having seen her . |
| 22 | ‘ Right , ’ said a small , fat man in the front row whom I could not remember ever having seen before . |
| 23 | I 'm five-foot six and I 'll likely run to fat later on because Ma says I 'm the image of my grandfather , whom I ca n't remember ever having seen . |
| 24 | In marked contrast to Solihull , where , a similar period after its launch by the LEA , less than half of the teachers could claim even to have seen the scheme booklet ( Turner and Clift , op. cit. ) , in Oxfordshire , by the end of 1984 four-fifths of teachers had already been involved in a whole-school review . |
| 25 | Pat also went to see Gildas and Ludens , both of whom were feeling guilty because they had not offered to ‘ put him up ’ . |
| 26 | Nicandra dreaded ever having to see him again this embarrassment and fear engrossed her more fully than her love had ever done . |
| 27 | I decided that they simply would n't have understood why I 'd done this and would now feel too hurt and abused ever to want to see me again . |
| 28 | The most uncomfortable part now is the interviews , because I ca n't put on an act , particularly on TV , I get really embarrassed seeing myself . |
| 29 | I go along and watch women 's football and get really infuriated to see a man out there refereeing the game , and often in a very condescending manner ! |
| 30 | Oh yeah , i in that way er certainly when he produced the bonus contract to go with the saw table , you know we w that was fairly plain , that production would have risen in his estimates quite considerably , and yet our wages in fact would have dropped quite considerably so , yes I mean er it did n't seem quite to tally in the way we would have like to have seen it . |