Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and . |
| 32 | They had been lured miles into the hills by reports of a distant loch , full of superb fish that had n't seen artificial fly or an angler for years . |
| 33 | I have run in more than 30 cities , including places that had never seen a runner before . |
| 34 | He was oddly sluggish and lazy , more like a leery veteran than a horse that had never seen a racecourse . |
| 35 | They yeah we used to call in Tex and he , he could n't believe that there were old people living in Walsall at the time in this country the size of England , and people living in Walsall that had never seen the sea in their lives , and this guy coming from America could n't believe this . |
| 36 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 37 | Many of the young couples that come here to see about their weddings , when asked , admit that their relationship had a pretty unspectacular beginning . |
| 38 | Her that come round to see you and Steve ? |
| 39 | What survival value can there be in an eye that does n't see ? |
| 40 | Developers that have yet to see Intel Corp 's P5 microprocessor are in for a shock , because judging by intelligence gleaned by Computer Reseller News in Asia , the new part bears little resemblance to the commodity microprocessors that power tens of millions of personal computers . |
| 41 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 42 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 43 | And checked hastily to see that Marion could n't hear him . |
| 44 | Sheepishly I fed the other meter , too , and slouched in to see my Alexander Technique teacher , who 's helping me to stand up straight . |
| 45 | The City Research project is now moving in to its second year and has already seen the publication of three reports . |
| 46 | Olsen has belief in frank , and has also seen him play U21 successfully . |
| 47 | Graham has been put before seminars of skin specialists from all over the British Isles — and has even seen one expert from Canada . |
| 48 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 49 | Bureaucracy is a dirty word even among bureaucrats , and in business there is a widespread view that managerial hierarchy kills initiative , crushes creativity , and has therefore seen its day . |
| 50 | The manager had watched Rangers play Dundee United at Ibrox last month and has therefore seen Walter Smith 's side put under pressure over two games — a two-goal lead having been lost in Glasgow before Ally McCoist eventually scored the winner . |
| 51 | Gabriel knelt up inside the cart and peered out to see what would happen . |
| 52 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |
| 53 | Once committed , he drew breath hard , and stooped nearsightedly to see what fate had granted him . |
| 54 | Sorneone saw the open garage door and sneaked in to see what he could pinch . |
| 55 | She stared at him and seemed not to see him . |
| 56 | ‘ I think you gave me one too , ’ I said , then , very gingerly , I straightened up and twisted round to see that Murder Cay was far behind us and well out of machine-gun range . |
| 57 | And Ive never seen a ball hit from that far out , rise in a straight line ( showing the power behind it ) . |
| 58 | Well when the sirens went at the beginning , what few rifles we 'd got , he 'd er take us out and string we out along this brook , a rifle every so often and and facing one way and looking round to see when anything goes up and in case anybody come over or anything come over and er that was the initial start . |
| 59 | This and and looking round to see that you were working . |
| 60 | ‘ Aye , ’ I said , wiping my eyes with my sleeve and looking round to see that we were still alone . |