Example sentences of "[verb] see [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The doctor asked to see the fallen member .
2 The protesters were demanding to see a confidential document written by Anglian Water to the Scottish Office about the reorganisation of Scottish water .
3 The protesters were demanding to see a confidential AW document to the Scottish Office about Scottish water .
4 As pressure intensified , Mr Hurd contacted UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali , demanding to see the Cambodian representative to the UN .
5 Perhaps I should n't interfere but I hate to see a young man throwing his life away . ’
6 ‘ I hate to see a decent man making a mess of his life .
7 Several prime ministers made it clear that they would want to see a radical extension of the Community powers and resources to help poorer regions and social groups as they moved to monetary union .
8 People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin .
9 In fact , his comments seemingly invite the charge , for he describes the lack of black guardsmen in terms of feelings rather than in terms of the discourse of external factuality : ‘ People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin . ’
10 It should be noted that he remarks that ‘ people ’ do not want to see a black face , not that he personally objects to such a sight .
11 Society chairman Malcolm Smith said his members would now want to see a written reply from the Department of Health confirming the proposed arrangements would not be introduced .
12 We do not want to see a massive amount of custodial sentencing , although we are glad that provision is made for it ; what we do want is a reduction in the number of people who participate in such a horrendous cult and in the equally horrendous statistics relating to youngsters who take cars , go to court and then take more cars .
13 Do n't you want to see the new designs ? ’
14 He said his was perhaps an ‘ old-fashioned ’ view — that he did not want to see the entire world addicted to drugs , like the synthetic existence described in Brave New World — but it was an enormous leap , he thought , from ‘ smoking a little grass to that grim picture ’ .
15 WBC holder Hodkinson wants a £250,000 purse but Warren , who is McMillan 's promoter , said : ‘ I do n't want to see the big contests slip away because the fighters are too greedy .
16 ‘ Do you want to see the main bedroom again ? ’
17 Naturally even he will want to see the maximum level of coverage achieved , but the method is not mass mailings but the sort of activity outlined in Chapter 10 .
18 Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on .
19 I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this .
20 In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed .
21 ‘ I would prefer to see the medical charities emphasizing the large amount of research they sponsor into alternatives to the use of animals , rather than making a big fuss out of this ’ , says Michael Balls , chairman of the trustees of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , and until recently professor of medical cell biology at the University of Nottingham .
22 I would prefer to see an inter-club with Skelm and an inter-club with Hulton I think they get too big , two clubs is too difficult to organize when there 's three cos you , you 're getting it 's not , it 's the
23 And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant .
24 In consequence , they tend to see a simple one-to-one relation between attitudes , interests , and group organisation , and so they take the interest group world as a given that arises " naturally " in a way that calls for no complicated explanation .
25 Firstly , despite the functionalist tendencies already mentioned , The History of Sexuality does offer an alternative view of seeing the relationship between sexuality and wider social forces to the traditional functionalism of many ( particularly ) left interpretations , which tend to see a direct relationship between the nuclear family and organisation of sexuality , either in the interests of capitalism or as directly responsive to the urges of ‘ modernisation ’ .
26 There will , however , always be those who tend to see the negative side and may well suggest you ‘ do n't lose weight too quickly or you 'll look old ’ or ‘ you 'll only put it back on twice as fast if you lose it quickly ’ .
27 She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive …
28 The line to Bathgate , reopened to passengers on 24 March 1986 ( including two new stations at Uphall and Livingston ) at a cost of £1.5million shared by six public bodies expected to see a top figure of 400,000 passengers annually .
29 I expected to see a huge hound , but not a creature like this .
30 She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face .
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