Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | said they went in just to see how she was |
| 2 | Birdsfoot trefoil accompanies blackberries and there are no less than three colours of clover , the usual white , the less common pink and a much less frequently seen deep magenta variety adding a splash of summer colour . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll drop in tomorrow to see how she is . ’ |
| 4 | The white quivering lights which she so frequently saw probably resembled the white ‘ eels and strings ’ that Ruskin complained of , and had their origin in the psychotic brain . |
| 5 | Women drop in unexpectedly to see how your Plava compares with theirs — it has to be good , your reputation rests on the Pesach ( Passover ) Plava . |
| 6 | So actually seeing though first time , how much of a shock did it come to you , or was it just or was it expected ? |
| 7 | The air was warm and sultry , with the heady scents of plants perhaps never seen before . |
| 8 | He believed he should come across someone who should want his skills — he was an incurable optimist , and imagined a fortunate meeting around every corner , though how that should come about was hard to see , as he advanced farther and farther into the dark , dense trees , where even the moonlight was split into dull little needles of bluish light on the moss , not enough to see by . |
| 9 | Not enough to see by . |
| 10 | The moon was hardly more than a pale sliver , and surely not enough to see by . |
| 11 | ‘ There is still a place for old favourites such as viscaria , a plant I loved growing as a child although it is not much seen today . |
| 12 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 13 | We can now not only see how justified this comment was but , in details inaccessible to Freud at the time he was writing , can determine with some exactness both the causes and the consequences of this fateful development in human evolution . |
| 14 | In re-examining the slides McDade came across a colony he had just not seen previously . |
| 15 | And the detailed rules of company law must be tested not just to see how well they serve the interests of shareholders , but also how well they serve the interests of society in having an efficient and productive economy . |
| 16 | Such illustrations are valuable if one is discriminating specimens , in a museum or perhaps in the field ; but close species are not usually seen together , because they will fill slightly different ecological niches . |
| 17 | After a while we appeared to stop accelerating in this nose-high stance — and of course we could no longer clearly see where we were going , so I eased the yoke forward to lift us onto the step . |
| 18 | which you can just about see here a in conjunction with the puss cells with which it is busily |
| 19 | Several themes recur throughout the book , grit and courage , an inexplicable sense of insecurity , a solemnity which Gooch has cultivated almost consciously as an image , and a love of playing for his county which the author suggests is not often seen elsewhere in county cricket ( although one or two from Yorkshire might disagree ) . |
| 20 | He has not even seen yet all the Khedivial estates . |
| 21 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 22 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 23 | I 'm gon na give his lecture or his talk which probably means I shall get my my tongue in a twist an an an and not quite see where I 'm going . |
| 24 | Dorothea supposed that change must affect even such trivialities as the uniform of waitresses , although she did not quite see why , and it was a note of uncertainty in an otherwise happy day . |
| 25 | They do not expect him to lose but can not quite see how he is going to win . |
| 26 | There were steps from one terrace to another but Susan could not yet see where they would lead in the end . |
| 27 | They are most usually seen singly , but two together are sometimes met with . |
| 28 | Joan Cooper can still not see properly . |
| 29 | Smoked or tinted material is preferred as the instruments constructed can be more easily seen when set aside . |
| 30 | If you cut the food into neat cubes , you can more easily see where it has been eaten . |