Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last decade or so has seen significant changes in patterns of employment . |
| 2 | Students there were either not concerned or just waiting to see what happened next before becoming involved . |
| 3 | Or even getting to see the T-shirts . |
| 4 | ( For a description of the forms of inspection that currently exist see Day and Klein , 1990 . ) |
| 5 | Er anybody that actually wants to see a list of the prizewinners from last year , from the actual race , I do have a copy er |
| 6 | Yet they could hardly express their resentment in terms of thwarted personal ambition and so preferred to see their fate as a result of ideological changes in the Party . |
| 7 | Her mother had not noticed the incident and only turned to see what the matter was when Joyce began to scream . |
| 8 | I did n't look too closely at any of the bits and pieces lying around , squinting at them from the side of my eye , wanting and not wanting to see bloody meat or tattered clothing . |
| 9 | It 's strange to be in Strathspeld , to be in the house and not have seen Mr and Mrs Gould . |
| 10 | ‘ What do you mean , Bobbie , by coming to Victoria and not coming to see me ? ’ |
| 11 | If you 'd left well alone and not tried to see the child you 'd 'ave saved yerself a lot of heartache . |
| 12 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 13 | I called him Peter , after his father , who used to tour around a bit and always came to see me when he was on his travels . |
| 14 | He keeps up their morale and always remembers to see that they are thanked properly . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll call you tomorrow and hopefully get to see you in your office . |
| 16 | I would like to see the current midfield plus Rocky and hodge , and also like to see Strandli get a chance with Deane and wallace . |
| 17 | John likes to visit his old friends and also travels to see his brother who has had a stroke . |
| 18 | An arm of the law arrived the same day to take Sam away from him , and also demanded to see what the man called ‘ the place of lodging ’ . |
| 19 | I liked her Mat Coward and Edward Pearce ( ‘ Socialism 's answer to Ezra Pound , only more confused ’ and ‘ A sort of sober Dylan Thomas ’ ) , and confidently expect to see more of her in the future . |
| 20 | The physicists lived for the emulsion trails and double checked to see if they were interpreting them correctly . |
| 21 | as in this case we go down the three column , the three is a in the numerator N one , right , till we reach seventeen , right , and now test to see if it 's three point two right , so if we |
| 22 | We have made a sound start in 1990 to achieving the degree of co-operation and mutual aid that we know the Government and Public expect to see more in evidence throughout this decade . |
| 23 | He witnessed the success of Dermovate cream in one sufferer and even went to see a Harley Street physician . |
| 24 | The years between 1973 , when Guinness first established a presence in Indonesia , and today have seen a long but seemingly inexorable growth in the Guinness brand . |
| 25 | In that match I feel we would gain some consolationf from having 11 corners and maybe want to see the moves leading up to those … as they did nt amount to anything they may have just shown the ‘ dangerous ’ attacks . |
| 26 | In order to address this question one must first endeavour to investigate the type of meaning expressed by to and the type of meaning expressed by the modals and then try to see why they can not be put into relation with one another . |
| 27 | I 'm glad you 've made reference actually to that picture of the circles because I , I erm I came up with that after we 'd had the parish day and i you know , observing who was there on the parish day and then trying to see how , how we reach people and , and , and who were missing and how important was it that everybody should be there on parish day , and was n't it that people who are involved should be there on parish day because that 's a point at which erm you know parish council can meet those very people . |
| 28 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 29 | I spent the next few days talking to Cabinet colleagues — all of whom shared my view that the demand was preposterous — and then went to see the Prime Minister . |
| 30 | We snatched something like rest , and then went to see our Church . |