Example sentences of "[pron] see [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 2 | I saw that here was opportunity for anthropological study which , when reported abroad , could but add to my fame . |
| 3 | But at once I saw that perhaps he was right , that perhaps the backs of my hands were indeed hideous and strange . |
| 4 | I had always seen myself as potentially a sort of protector of her ; and for the first time , that evening at Bourani , I saw that perhaps she had been , or could have been , a protector of me . |
| 5 | I see that now ( it was a swoon of where-to-begin ? ) . |
| 6 | I see that now , ’ Ruth whispered . |
| 7 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
| 8 | I see and then er , well that 's what they did yesterday |
| 9 | can you see that please , can you make total of eight there , we 've got wait to orange like thing goes round to the eight |
| 10 | Yeah can you see that better there ? |
| 11 | Can you see that maybe , if at some time in the future , you do have er , some bad health , or perhaps get involved in an accident , that after a period of time , it might be difficult to actually find the money to pay for this plan we 're establishing tonight ? |
| 12 | She saw that already , after only three days , there was an alertness and competence coming into Jim ; he had been dulled and slowed by unemployment . |
| 13 | Oreste would die , she saw that now , for what was it she had felt for Ferdinando if not lust ? |
| 14 | Slogging away at the military hospital , sickened by the pain she saw and more muddled than ever , she decided that when the war was over she would become a tramp . |
| 15 | They 'd hear it th th they would n't erm they 'd know through the agent , when the ships were coming they used to make it their business to go and find out you see but today th they even got telephones on the houses now so they can call 'em out . |
| 16 | All bachelors , stood along the counter , you see , and er they were all good friends and though some of them had , had retired , one had retired and we , well there most of them had retired because er my husband was fifteen years older than me and er yes anyway erm he , he , he retired , let me see , we married er when I was forty four , you see and erm he would then be , well no , yes he 'd be just fifty nine , you see but nevertheless , we had thirty two years very happily married and so when he died , he was ninety one . |
| 17 | They want rearing and all that , they want to rear you see but so long as you get them settled and stand on them do anything , keep them down . |
| 18 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
| 19 | but you see that only lasts so long they , they perish |
| 20 | O.K. I 'll try do a version , but it does effect on Q P 5 an Q P6 you see as well coughing . |
| 21 | Yo you see as well to go with what you call them ? |
| 22 | That 's why it 's best not to tell people that you 're doing it you see because then they they 're careful what they say . |
| 23 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 24 | No I 've got this big problem you see because very often pianos are at the centre of orgies . |
| 25 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 26 | Or you might go to a sports club and meet some colleagues , or some friends there , and while you 're training together you 're talking , about other things , you see and again , you ca n't be , you 're not thinking about work . |
| 27 | They chopped a lot of cable into one inch pieces you see and just gave a bit of this out . |
| 28 | well anyway er , you see and well anyway er so when , that night and we were by coach of course bus , went there by bus and so that night she said to me , what are you doing when , in the bus , she said , what are you doing this evening ? |
| 29 | He 's got a white collar you see and also he 's very big |
| 30 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |