Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Apparently they like to see you once to begin with . ’ |
| 2 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 3 | When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit . |
| 4 | Obviously they had seen Carnelian before in this sanctum , though not in that eerie , invasive guise . |
| 5 | If only they had seen the correspondence that flowed to party chairmen from ’ Horrified of the Home Counties ’ when some of those Bills hit the deck ; one example was the correspondence from the lighthouse keepers association . |
| 6 | Together they went to see Baldwin after dinner and persuaded him , apparently without great difficulty , to go out , if he had to , with a bang and not a whimper . |
| 7 | Already they have seen the hip-swivelling dance trio The London Boys , comeback-making Curiosity Killed The Cat and the ebullient Sonia , latest perfectly packaged product to roll off the Stock , Aitken and Waterman production line . |
| 8 | TEENAGERS who were at school with alleged foster parents ' cruelty victim Paul Llewelyn Jones told a court yesterday they remembered seeing marks on his body . |
| 9 | Half an hour later they had seen the cafe . |
| 10 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 11 | Now they 've seen you , little choice they 've got . |
| 12 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 13 | And little by little they came to see the great Christian doctrine that eternal sin must be , in the very nature of things , eternal punishment or eternal misery . |
| 14 | Most importantly they come to see a film , not to a language class , so the language is a means to an end . |
| 15 | But even they will blench if a marble statue waves at them , for you would have to live dealions of years longer than even they do to see a miracle of this magnitude . |
| 16 | Surely they 've saw the trend ? |
| 17 | Here they have seen her because they have been within thirty feet of her . |
| 18 | Sometimes they 'd seen her , other times not , but it was always more exciting to be that close . |
| 19 | Hoffman 's measurement of the gamma spectrum was their third signature for neutrons : first there had been their own relatively crude neutron measurements with the dosimeter , then they had seen Jones ' suggestive neutron spectrum and now this ( erroneous as it turned out ) gamma peak . |
| 20 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 21 | Anyway they were in contact with APEX and then they came to see us , that was on a Monday , the same day there were mass meetings at Chapter Road and Cobbold Road . |
| 22 | Then they needed to see what I had in the box . |
| 23 | Instead they want to see a more gradual approach backed by a cut in interest rates . |
| 24 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |