Example sentences of "[adv] see [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces .
2 There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century .
3 Alerted by a slight sound , she again opened her eyes , turning her head slowly to see a cup and saucer being placed on a nearby small table .
4 Gay stayed with her , while Breeze ran into the inn and , with lively recollections of her last visit , asked rather nervously to see the proprietor .
5 I STILL CA N'T BELIEVE THAT YOU INTEND TO CARRY ON SEEING THE TART BEHIND LAURA 'S BACK !
6 It lends itself quite suitably to the UK sporting scene which is populated by many black sportsmen growing up in broken homes , settling on the side of the mother and eventually seeing the father as an anathema , as did Repton heavyweight Ray Tabi :
7 Mr Johnston said it would be foolish to anticipate better advertising volumes for the provincial press in general , at least until the latter part of 1993 , but the group 's present lower cost base should certainly benefit profits if Britain was eventually to see the type of modest recovery which was beginning to boost the US newspaper industry .
8 I had neither , so I plodded stoically through the mire turning a corner eventually to see the summit of Ingleborough framed by the walls of the lane .
9 As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential .
10 It did not take long to see the extension of the concept .
11 In my log I had mentioned cutting in especially to see the fall .
12 when we down to London last week , we went in to see a friend of ours , she works in the sandwich bar
13 To give the walk some point , Will Simpson had decided to call in to see a patient whose son farmed the fields beyond the Heights .
14 My sons have been booked in to see a speech therapist .
15 One day when he was extremely unrealistic and euphoric , I really became upset ; it was like going in to see a stranger — he was receiving a high dosage of morphine at that time — and I called his pulmonary doctor and requested that something be done or an explanation be given .
16 He got her in to see an agent who was a friend of Jock Lennox , and he had arranged an appointment with a producer who was sending out a show with the American Ragtime Octette and Cissie Loftus the impressionist , as well as The Ramblers , a famous juggling act , and an Australian called Pansy Montague , who toured as La Milo , an exponent of the art of living statues .
17 I 've got Andy Barton in to see the Minister responsible at the DTI .
18 Now , two days before he sailed for New York , Mary smuggled him in to see the child .
19 He knew exactly why the Curator had asked him in to see the eagle — a most unusual thing for someone as unimportant as him to be called in personally in this way .
20 Tonight Joyce Carey and Graham Payne are in to see the show .
21 So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days .
22 For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body .
23 ‘ I 'll be going in to see the manager first thing Monday to sort out my future .
24 THE Llandudno flood victims will get a boost today when the Duke of Edinburgh flies in to see the disaster for himself .
25 Yet by the end things have shifted , as in The Doll 's House where the children are too poor to be brought in to see the house .
26 I mean I have gone to the trouble , I have been in to see the planning officer that 's dealing with it , erm I 've written to every single member of the planning committee , I 've written to the Environmental Health who have written back to me saying they offer no objections and there because the smell wo n't be a problem so I 've written them back another stinking letter and saying well erm
27 We would of done the same sort of thing and could of gone in to see the planning officer but I just , I just assumed you know that , that life was fair but of course there 's no justice in this life
28 He was smiling widely at her now , saying , ‘ I had to tell nurse not to say they were n't coming in to see the doctor they expected .
29 Just enough to see a nose and one eye .
30 I 've never had any difficulty sleeping and I try to stay awake long enough to see the cancer in my mind 's eye .
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