Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gay stayed with her , while Breeze ran into the inn and , with lively recollections of her last visit , asked rather nervously to see the proprietor . |
| 2 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 3 | Dougal was relieved that Miss Devenish agreed so readily to see him . |
| 4 | ‘ And you wo n't even let the boy stay long enough to see his mother ? ’ said the yeoman without animosity . |
| 5 | His only problem was , would he survive long enough to see through what was in some ways the most monumental task he had yet set himself ? |
| 6 | Willie peered gingerly outside to see if he could catch a glimpse of the strange boy from the Post Office . |
| 7 | It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand . |
| 8 | So it is that , despite much talk of changing the electoral system and the laws on financing political parties , Japan has so far seen no Italianate reaction to corruption scandals . |
| 9 | Her first bit of advice , especially to older women , is to go through the wardrobe , ruthlessly discarding anything that no longer fits , no longer looks good on us , or has long since seen better days . |
| 10 | Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare . |
| 11 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 12 | Plus the plain tile eave coursing so often seen with pantile roofs in the North East . |
| 13 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 14 | The archive has thus always seen itself in terms of historical rather than current social science research . |
| 15 | He tried once more to see the Queen but her fat , pompous chamberlain rudely announced that Lady Yolande was leaving Scotland and had no wish to discuss anything with anyone . |
| 16 | THE country 's top aristocrat , the Duke of Marlborough , has still not seen his only grandson and future heir . |
| 17 | His lawyer has also not seen the results . |
| 18 | ‘ But you 'd better not see him for too long . |
| 19 | Cardiff turned to Pearce as the elevator doors slid shut again , pausing only briefly to see that Rohmer was standing almost nonchalantly with his back to the corridor wall and with that infuriating half-smile on his face again . |
| 20 | As he turned , the leg was straight up in the air , a position I 'd only ever seen Springsteen get into voluntarily . |
| 21 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 22 | Macari said reports of him spending the weekend talking to Celtic director David Smith were ‘ pure rubbish , ’ and that he 'd still not seen or spoken to anyone from Celtic Park . |
| 23 | ‘ We came here today to see how you were doing , up here in the bushes with Nana , ’ her mother explained , leaning against the hot side of the car and avoiding the child 's eyes . |
| 24 | ‘ But she came here specifically to see you ? ’ |
| 25 | We would do well today to see that times to remember are consciously worked into the pattern of our lives . |
| 26 | For a moment he seemed almost not to see the bright silver circle that lay in her palm . |
| 27 | She knew all Isabelle 's small store of jewellery , and she 'd certainly never seen this before , although she had to admit it was a beautiful thing . |
| 28 | Daly achieved instant super-stardom when , as ninth reserve and without a caddie , he got into the 1991 US PGA Championship at the last minute , and played like a God for four days on a course he 'd never previously seen to win it . |
| 29 | He 'd never even seen the wedding-dress the boy had mentioned . |
| 30 | When we were north of the border recently for the Scottish Music Show , before I 'd had time to look round myself , people were rushing over to describe a monster the like of which they 'd never before seen . |