Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] see " in BNC.
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1 | I came back with scent bottles at £2.50 each , which I 've seen in British stores for over £50 . |
2 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |
3 | I happen to be embarking on a motoring trip during the course of which I hope to see many splendid views . |
4 | Susanna Wesley spoke with her daughter in October and prayed that she would be given true repentance , ‘ without which I desire to see her face no more ’ . |
5 | The children were very much like the angels of resurrection which I had seen over tombs . |
6 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
7 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
8 | He had the bogus Red Cross form which I had seen at Amsterdam on his lap . |
9 | We were talking about flowers and I mentioned the wild garlic which I had seen growing in Wiltshire . |
10 | A few days ago , when it had been snowing , I saw a group of Savoy cabbages standing frozen and benumbed , and it reminded me of a group of women in their thin petticoats and old shawls which I had seen standing in a little hot-water-and-coal shop early in the morning . ’ |
11 | She pointed to the sleek white pleasure yacht which I had seen lying at anchor at the foot of the small hill , and chaffed Baker , ‘ I always have the feeling he 'd rather be on the water than on dry land . |
12 | From this point you get one of the best views in the Dales : to your right , Dentdale , Whernside , the foot of Deepdale and Dent town itself ; to your left , northern Dentdale , Frostrow and the Howgills ; while below you are spread the patched and parcelled fields of the dale which , on this June day , were coloured a green the like of which I had seen before only in Ireland . |
13 | Sand was cleaner than water , the desert dead cleaner than the drowned dishevelled things which I had seen thrown up on shores . |
14 | Another function in London which I was able to attend was a lecture by Eliot at that same Group Theatre at which I had seen Sweeney Agonistes . |
15 | We were shown round the mills at Newcastle-under-Lyme and Preston , both of which I had seen before . |
16 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
17 | I am therefore not Christian not least for the sake of the kind of human relationships which I want to see flourish . |
18 | It is not a label which I want to see attached to the British economy . |
19 | There are a few things that have cropped up which I have to see to now . |
20 | On a more mundane level , I have felt delight in contemplating some phenomenon of nature which I have seen and felt with the emotions of a child when I have escaped from the prison house of our habitual thoughts . |
21 | There are mallards , teals , of which I have seen a few recently in the Camel estuary , always an abundance of moorhens and coots , and here and there the odd tern . |
22 | I would be very grateful for any information on this fish , which I have seen in other shops as Shark Catfish . |
23 | I can by no means sacrifice these to the carelessness into which I have seen very nice ladies sink when they become nurses . |
24 | Do they have the orientation programmes which I have seen in many of the local authority homes that I have visited in my constituency ? |
25 | The grooms on the train were all younger , thinner and from what I 'd seen of them in their uniform T-shirts less positive . |
26 | You supplied a deep-seated need in me to blot out what I 'd seen . |
27 | Yeah , what I thought see , if you come out and I 'm covering the door and this light on you 'll be able to see straight away . |
28 | I do n't know what I expected to see , but as always when you have a tooth out or get kicked half to death the change in appearance is nowhere like commensurate with the pain . |
29 | Well I tell you what I went to see have you seen the Chippendales ? |
30 | That 's what I like to see . |