Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] see the " in BNC.
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1 | Whatever their political persuasions , it was the early work of such reformers and philanthropists which created a climate of opinion that began to see the housing of the very poor as part of the social purpose of the state . |
2 | The months and years that followed saw the establishment of a much more substantial Soviet presence in Afghanistan than any that had previously existed , including political and economic links as well as a growing military commitment . |
3 | As a result , of the entire generation that had seen the marvels of God 's deliverance from Egypt , only three men — Moses , Joshua and Caleb — survive to the end of the book . |
4 | Yes well from as many boys that had seen the age , they had to go . |
5 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
6 | ‘ Oh , I was n't going to tell you this , but I went to the bank and asked to see the Manager . |
7 | I was told I was getting a direct order , but I refused to pack and asked to see the governor . |
8 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
9 | It was quite dark when Breeze let herself into the house , and for a second she was dazzled by the electric light , and failed to see the suitcases in the hall . |
10 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
11 | I attended one course with about 50 porn star wannabes — nearly all of them men — and got to see the way things operate both in front of and behind the camera . |
12 | Rhoda took to table-tapping and seances and reported seeing the ghost of Wendy hovering over her bed at night . |
13 | Secondly , many of the writers who established sociology took the notion of evolution from Darwinian biology , and tried to see the part played by man 's societies and cultures in the light of this . |
14 | As the coach swung around the mountain 's impressive edge , directly below the vast height , I looked up and seemed to see the grimly laughing face of one of the woodcarver 's gods . |
15 | The five CMHTs varied greatly in their precise method of operation and these variations were hotly debated among themselves at times , but they all engaged in service development and came to see the generation of personal treatment plans as a prelude to service development rather than as being constrained by the existing service stock . |
16 | Mary Hammond-Heath , still not a qualified barrister , lived in a room in a house in Clapham , and came to see the Bouveries on the long-distance bus , because it was cheaper . |
17 | She shook her head and turned to see the policeman by the bed grimacing at her . |
18 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
19 | Then he heard Madra 's despairing cry , and turned to see the enemy Myrcans surging on to the ramparts , their staffs swinging , cutting down the defenders like corn . |
20 | At this Unitarian chapel Trevor had opportunities for studying social problems and began to see the relationship between politics and religion . |
21 | His command was very successful and included seeing the settlement through a near-famine when a plague of caterpillars ate most of the green food . |
22 | The boys ' attention did not spring from concern for Alec but concern for themselves if Alec was cut and needed to see the nurse . |
23 | Morrissey however , hearing of Kent 's archaeological digging into his past , completely panicked and demanded to see the results prior to publication . |
24 | The company 's Tokyo bureau chief , David Butts , twice entered the press club room — on May 21st and May 24th — and demanded to see the results as they were being put in the cubby-holes . |
25 | And demanded to see the new king . |
26 | After drinking some vodka , she went to Mr Lockwood 's home and demanded to see the letter from the CPS . |
27 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |
28 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
29 | There were others ( such as Howard Teicher , who had gone on the trip to Tehran and had seen the spare parts in the back of the plane ) who were ‘ not in all the boxes within the boxes but some element of the box ’ . |
30 | It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s . |