Example sentences of "[adv] see [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew very little about these last clients of the season except that they were two attorneys and a proctologist , all from Georgia and all vacationing with their wives , and we also knew that one of the wives was a vegetarian and that the proctologist hated pasta , but beyond that our guests were utter strangers and so we waited nervously to see what kind of people would be our companions and paymasters for the next week . |
| 2 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 3 | Five things to achieve may well seem a lot , but for encouragement read on to see what objectives other women have set themselves . |
| 4 | A market economy constructed around communitarian values and proactively managed is the engine of wealth creation — and the race is on to see which party adopts that credo as its own . |
| 5 | and a little boy nipped on to see his mum the boy never got off so he was still on the bus |
| 6 | Playing with Darcy , the 33-year-old Dubliner dropped a shot early on to see his lead reduced by two shots . |
| 7 | When the old Major , so soon to die , had travelled secretly to see his son and meet her , she recognized his courtesy because he was a gentleman , but there was no welcome and no warmth in him . |
| 8 | They will often invite you in to see their stock , and if you make a purchase you may be rewarded with a glass of madeira wine . |
| 9 | ‘ He walked in to see her standing in the kitchen naked with burnt pubic hair , ’ said Mr Godsmark . |
| 10 | Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did . |
| 11 | One night when she was ready for bed she called Maureen in to see her preparations . |
| 12 | ‘ I share with David an ’ he 's bound to keep comin' in to see what we'se doin' and Edward has n't had a room of his own ever . |
| 13 | Sheepishly I fed the other meter , too , and slouched in to see my Alexander Technique teacher , who 's helping me to stand up straight . |
| 14 | Having explained this , I hope you 'll think again before storming in to see your son 's headmaster . |
| 15 | So , if you 're in to see your doctor at five at night and get a script , you 've got to wait until two the next day . |
| 16 | The gipsy was loudly demanding to be allowed in to see his sister . |
| 17 | It was Mary Donovan who suggested that Eileen 's younger brother might slip in to see his nephew before he left for America . |
| 18 | Before he left he slipped in to see his wife . |
| 19 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 20 | He did not go in to see his mother , but went upstairs and lay face down on his bed . |
| 21 | Was there enough to see her way ? |
| 22 | Possessive adjectives , however , do not produce a satisfactory result : ( 60 ) our bicycles damaged all had red handlebars your ideas discussed will be put to our colonel One may enquire why there should be this contrast , since it seems easy enough to see what meaning should be attached to each of the sentences of ( 60 ) . |
| 23 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 24 | ‘ And you wo n't even let the boy stay long enough to see his mother ? ’ said the yeoman without animosity . |
| 25 | The evening was now getting dark , but light enough to see my way . |
| 26 | Here are three examples to help ; — Do you get around enough to see your people — or do they criticize you for being too distant , frequently unavailable or too busy ? |
| 27 | ‘ Besides , I 'm going along to see my agent this morning . |
| 28 | December 7 , 1786 : I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan , and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin 's and Aberdeen Almanacks , along with the black Monday and the battle of Bothwell Bridge . |
| 29 | Writing began out of the tremendous need to understand why those of us who formed the early groups were suddenly seeing our lives and the history we had learned through new eyes . |
| 30 | These are men and women who have invested years of their lives into various enterprises , only to see their firms hurled on the trash heap by intransigent , arrogant , profit-hungry banks . |