Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that sentence the club will most want to see cut . |
| 2 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 3 | I would so like to see Alida lead a fuller life , less anxious and restrained . |
| 4 | Anyone entering from outside would only have seen Jim with his feet up in front of the fire , reading a thriller . |
| 5 | He 'd so love to see people and of course at the moment |
| 6 | ‘ Harold , Felicity may not want to see Magdalen , she 's probably tired after her journey . |
| 7 | ‘ There will come a day , sooner or later , when he will not want to see Lulach . |
| 8 | just that issue was raised that we would not want to see demolition of Franklyns that block held up by this . |
| 9 | Mr Bergg said he did not want to see law breaking but he believed home owners should use the system to insist on fair valuations which had not been rushed through by estate agents . |
| 10 | We do not want to see pensioners ' or anybody else 's savings eroded by the inflation levels sustained by the then Labour Government . |
| 11 | But if the FA decide to take up the matter , I believe Arsenal will not take action , because they do not want to see Wright punished twice . |
| 12 | I mean , fair enough , I can understand why they might not want to see Mr and Mrs Mowatt . |
| 13 | Ms Hyslop added : ‘ There are those who were unhappy with the parliamentary group 's vote but who do not want to see months of infighting within the party . ’ |
| 14 | The Director of the Kenya Wildlife Service , Dr Richard Leakey , commented that : " We do not want to see ivory having a commercial value , because if it has , people will continue to steal it . |
| 15 | In concrete terms , Miliband has argued that in a capitalist society , the interests of private capital will invariably and necessarily be taken into account in the development of public policy and so we should not expect to see business leaders standing on a soap box anymore than we should expect to see those who enjoy the ear of government organising on the streets . |
| 16 | Those constraints have gone now , and yet Haines says for various reasons we should not expect to see future AS/400s challenging the top-end mainframe market , although it will become a stronger challenger around the low-end and middle of Enterprise System 's territory . |
| 17 | The moderator will normally expect to see documentary evidence of the circumstances cited and samples of the students work at the time of moderating the assignments and/or examination scripts . |
| 18 | I do not like to see eagles fighting in this way over something that is no eagle 's fault . |
| 19 | I do not like to see things being killed . |
| 20 | For funerals , the Reverend Bottingley felt , were not a woman 's occasion , they were too hard on the emotions , and on the feet and knees , and he did not like to see women weep in public . |
| 21 | People do not like to see land set aside , with someone appearing not to be doing very much with the land set aside and getting paid for it . |
| 22 | I do not like to see thistles growing in the fields . |
| 23 | You 've grown into a very beautiful young woman , Alice , and I do not like to see beauty wasted . |
| 24 | Phil Gallie , Conservative MP for Ayr , would not like to see VAT extended and made representations , on behalf of the local press , during the current round of pre-Budget consultations . |
| 25 | ‘ I do not like to see fear in a woman 's eyes , especially a woman who places so much value in equality . |
| 26 | One does not hope to see Les Peard around in the same way as the name of Winston Jones vanished after he handed Scotland their 1984 Grand Slam on a plate , aided and abetted by the British press and its tirade against French forward play . |
| 27 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 28 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |
| 29 | If he had not actually gone into the room he would not have seen Gina ; she was standing against one of the bookcases hidden from him by the open door . |
| 30 | However , the results of experiments on members of a number of African tribes whose culture does not include the custom of depicting three-dimensional objects by two-dimensional perspective drawings indicate that the members of those tribes would not have seen Figure 3 as a staircase but as a two-dimensional array of lines . |