Example sentences of "[verb] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 2 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 3 | They asked to see a doctor and Zahira was taken to another part of the building where , she says , she was superficially examined by a doctor and a nurse . |
| 4 | Leeds Crown Court was hearing a statement about the reaction of a porter who found her body when Robin Pask asked to see a doctor . |
| 5 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 6 | ‘ Woman with a heavy period , demanding to see a gynaecologist before she bleeds to death . |
| 7 | If their motive actually is er to enjoy seeing a fox torn to pieces er then I suggest to them er that is unbearable cruel there are of course objections to er this motion and to its further extension the banning of fox hunting altogether . |
| 8 | I was fascinated to see a friend train her horses so that she could pick up and clean out front and hind feet from the same side , working in order of near fore , off fore , near hind , off hind . |
| 9 | Does anybody want to see a teddy bear ? |
| 10 | ‘ And we did n't want to see a team of scriptwriters messing around with our characters . |
| 11 | People just did n't want to see a sports film . ’ |
| 12 | Sure you do n't want to see a dentist just to make sure it 's all right ? |
| 13 | No I do n't want to see a dentist . |
| 14 | Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge . |
| 15 | John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in . |
| 16 | It 's very difficult indeed to pin people down , quite rightly so , I mean , you do n't immediately want to see a scapegoat or something like that . |
| 17 | I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat . |
| 18 | Law of good continuity Then you tend to get things like closure where , instead of seeing four separated lines , you tend to see a square or a rectangle or whatever . |
| 19 | Right , yes , it is important you see is n't it ? , because one of things that happens also I think is , is that we tend to see a motorway and we tend to see a call one side it , and a call the other side , and work on the assumption that we can actually get across the motorway there , or under the motorway there , but sometimes you ca n't can you ? |
| 20 | Right , yes , it is important you see is n't it ? , because one of things that happens also I think is , is that we tend to see a motorway and we tend to see a call one side it , and a call the other side , and work on the assumption that we can actually get across the motorway there , or under the motorway there , but sometimes you ca n't can you ? |
| 21 | When I paint , I tend to see a colour , put that down , then move to something else and put that down , hopefully with a bit of shape as well . |
| 22 | that people tend to see a meeting as having to be really , oh it 's got ta be at ten to five , it 's got ta |
| 23 | Below the photic zone oxygen is consumed by biological activity so immediat from immediately below the photic zone you tend to see a decrease in oxygen with depth reaching a minima somewhere between five hundred and a thousand metres depth |
| 24 | We played the harmonium and sang together and Dad sometimes gave us money to go to see a picture at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 25 | Dr Fleming said the reason was that Germans had a quite different medical tradition and expected to see a specialist . |
| 26 | ‘ I expected to see a beach ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 27 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 28 | America , Canada , Britain and Sweden are all now expected to see a fall in economic output this year ; America 's GNP is forecast to shrink by 0.4% . |
| 29 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 30 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |