Example sentences of "[adj] they [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers are unionized and a powerful enough group to prevent the decoupling of their salary levels from those of other public-sector employees , but none the less by 1985 they had seen the real value of their salaries fall to half their value a decade earlier . |
| 2 | In their opinion , from the little they had seen and heard , one of them spoke too little and the other too much . |
| 3 | Doctors admit Gemma 's case is one of the worst they 've seen , but they 're confident she will get better . |
| 4 | Most bereaved people will talk of being quite sure they have seen the person who has died walking along the street and have called out to them before realizing that it could not be so . |
| 5 | Only one thing these men had in common — they were sure they wanted to see Gillian again . |
| 6 | ‘ The youngsters who visited your trailer were full of enthusiasm for all they had seen and done . |
| 7 | Cathery also added : " Lewis and Cannon ( the branch secretary ) came down to the Central Office and I let [ them ] see all the books , cheque book , bank passbook etc. ; in fact all they wanted to see . |
| 8 | ‘ All they need to see is a squiggle on the required line . |
| 9 | After all they have seen much worse . |
| 10 | Eubank has got where he is by aggravating public and opponents alike to the point that all they want to see is the object of their dislike brought down with a bump . |
| 11 | They 're happy to come to the rescue but most of all they want to see tighter rules regulating the ownership of such animals . |
| 12 | To say whether they feel the things that that they like to see and that we 're not doing . |
| 13 | Peter Mawdsley , head of Liverpool Trading Standards , said : ‘ I 'm pleased they have seen the current figures are unsatisfactory . |
| 14 | A glimmer of sun , the first they 'd seen for days in a chillier than average English summer , was gilding the meadow-sweet creamy-white in the tangled hedgerows . |
| 15 | But first they wanted to see to the drainage at one particularly bad spot , where a stream was running down the path . |
| 16 | ‘ But I know some people have felt so miserable they have seen their doctor for some medicine and have been told that the fumes are the likely cause of their symptoms . |
| 17 | Long-standing staff say February was the busiest they had seen for 20 years . ’ |
| 18 | Bluebird , which was rented by a group of nurses from the Waterloo Hospital , had been at the ready , and when the birth was imminent they 'd seen to it that the ambulance arrived promptly . |
| 19 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |