Example sentences of "[adv] see it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've been banned anywhere , ’ said Barry , adding that singer Michael Stipe had been involved in the production of the video and that the rest of the band had only seen it once . |
| 2 | I 've only seen it once . |
| 3 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 4 | Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises . |
| 5 | We 'd only see it once a year if it stayed where it was . |
| 6 | I only saw it today , saw |
| 7 | I only saw it once , and I wanted to see it again . |
| 8 | Hilton describes imagination as serving understanding when the need arises and although he is clear that the imaginative faculty is dependent on physical experience in a way in which mystical experience of God is not , he none the less saw it as able to precipitate a more spiritual understanding . |
| 9 | ‘ I expect he cursed me when he cursed Pat , only I was so healthy the effect was delayed , or perhaps my rotten paintings were the effect , and I only see it now . |
| 10 | Not seeing it right at the minute . |
| 11 | And while I think we ought to do what we can , I think there 's a line which ought to be drawn , and I do honestly wonder whether twenty-one , it was eighteen last year , and I just wonder if perhaps we should erm try and switch some of these to mid-week , so that we 're not seeing it virtually every Saturday of the year . |
| 12 | It 's nice just to see it once , that er really that nine should be written smaller and then that two should be even smaller still , and that three should almost be unreadable because those things are smaller and smaller are n't they , as you go along there , these are getting tinier and tinier . |
| 13 | No I 've not seen it yet . |
| 14 | Not seen it yet . |
| 15 | He knew , instantly ; his gaze went to the girl who had so intrigued him and he was only amazed he had not seen it right away . |
| 16 | He had not seen it before in his panic to ring the ambulance and get Mrs Popple to hospital . |
| 17 | The second ( 2.5.4 ) may even surprise and delight you if you 've not seen it before . |
| 18 | One piece of South Cornish — and Plymouth — weather lore runs , ‘ When you can see Eddystone clearly , rain is on its way ; when you can not see it clearly , rain is already here ’ . |
| 19 | Writing in the Sunday Times on 27th October 1968 about the Grosvenor Square demonstrations , Miss Mary Macarthy suggested it was ‘ a unique improbable event , something to cherish in our memory book , for , short of Utopia , we shall not see it again ’ . |
| 20 | But the raison déacute ; etre behind this concession was not so that the bowlers could swing the ball more : it was to prevent one ball becoming so discoloured that the batsman could not see it easily under the light of day-night games ! |
| 21 | Grace could not see it very well , because of the rain and the sea . |
| 22 | You 'll not see it now . |
| 23 | The world would not see it so , but I tell you , this is truth . |
| 24 | I had meant what I said about being ‘ free ’ , and though I see now that young women often use this argument as a retreat from struggle , a kind of laziness , I did not see it then . |
| 25 | Tennyson is portrayed here as one who , despite his reservations about its temper , did understand science , and did not see it as antithetical to the sphere of imagination . |
| 26 | To someone without this discriminative capacity , either congenitally or because it has not been developed , a thing can present a blue appearance , but he can not see it as blue . |
| 27 | There are others that do not see it as structural . |
| 28 | ‘ You know , Anne , you can get too close to a problem and not see it properly . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , no-one 's ever seen it apart from the Headmaster . |
| 30 | Have you ever seen it now . |