Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would so like to see her make some new friends . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , but your room , I should so like to see your room . ’ |
| 3 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 4 | Any potential student will naturally wish to see what is offered by the different drama schools and a concise summary of the aims and policies of the seventeen main schools can be found in Appendix B on p 119 . |
| 5 | Clutterbuck was an architect manqué himself and would obviously have seen their pattern books , including the one from which this design derives : Chinese and Gothick Architecture Properly Ornamented . |
| 6 | Moreover that we did much long to see you , the need we have to use you did provoke our hasty sending . |
| 7 | I do so long to see her , Aunt Sarah ! ’ |
| 8 | They 've got to see you sign the will or at least acknowledge it and in practice see you sign they do n't need to know what 's in the will they just want to see you sign but they 've got to be there it 's no good up the road as one witness did for not for me to her husband who was working in his shop witnessed the signature afterwards . |
| 9 | I 'll just wait to see what turns up . |
| 10 | This could explain why we see some quasars much nearer than we would normally expect to see them . |
| 11 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
| 12 | She now hopes that the world will no longer expect to see her on the arm of her husband , hugging or kissing him in public , behaving like a loving wife . |
| 13 | I 'd just like to see his face . |
| 14 | Guy Sterne did n't just avoid seeing his family , he did n't like talking about them either . |
| 15 | After a period of very stable numbers between 1985–89 , the PCC will thus have seen its workload increase by 66 per cent in only three years , a trend which shows little sign of ending . |
| 16 | Therefore , because it is unlikely that there will ever be revised editions , and because I should just hate to see my name on anything that could not be relied on , the probability is that the books will progressively be withdrawn from publication after a currency of a few years . ’ |
| 17 | They might already have seen her . |
| 18 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 19 | It protects the defendant in that it prevents the jury from speculating on the possible effect of adult literature on a young person who may just happen to see it , although it does not put the prosecution to proof that a majority , or even a substantial number , of readers would be adversely affected . |
| 20 | We 'll just have to see what a course of ECT will do for him . ’ |
| 21 | But Pipe said : ‘ The Gold Cup is a long way away and we 'll just have to see what happens in the meantime . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm aware of my name being mentioned again as an England candidate , which is nice , but we 'll just have to see what happens , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm aware of my name being mentioned again as an England candidate , which is nice , but we 'll just have to see what happens . |
| 24 | They get you over the weekend yeah , so erm , we 'll just have to see what happens and have , just have the contracts out . |
| 25 | erm We 'll just have to see what goes now this week , but erm I 'm pleased with Foyly . |
| 26 | Oh well you may find you might have to renegotiate something in the summer term then I suppose , but you 'll just have to see it how it works out . |
| 27 | As such , you would do yourself a major disservice if you did not consider it when next you purchase a Windows word processor , and , were you unfortunate enough to overlook it , you would doubtless kick yourself when you did finally get to see it . |
| 28 | I have an intractable presentiment that I will soon start seeing them in Tod 's dream . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't ever want to see her again , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Her last depressing thought before she fell asleep was that Ross must have been thoroughly bored by her complete lack of sophistication , and it was extremely unlikely that he would ever want to see her again . |