Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group broke up as they wandered off to see to their spouses , children or cups of tea . |
| 2 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd better see for myself . |
| 4 | You 'd better see for yourself . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And now , I think we 'd better see about keeping a special watch on the road . |
| 6 | So you 'd better see to it that Luke and Sonny do n't go often to the village . |
| 7 | ‘ Well — ’ She went to the fire and ground the kettle on top of the glowing tins , then added , ‘ As you 're takin' over , you 'd better see to it . ’ |
| 8 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 9 | I think you 'd better see to it . |
| 10 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 11 | ‘ Th 'd best see to the port then , instead of blowing about under my feet , ’ Salt snapped . |
| 12 | I would n't have been the first guy he 'd ever seen at that hour . |
| 13 | Sergeant Newton Barrios had investigated more than seven hundred traffic fatalities in the city of New Orleans , but this was the worst he 'd ever seen on the St Claude Avenue Bridge . |
| 14 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 15 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 16 | I saw the largest bare belly I 'd ever seen in life . |
| 17 | She was the loveliest girl that I 'd ever seen in my life , and her voice was like music . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ He was n't somebody I 'd ever seen in here before , perhaps that 's why I took notice . |
| 19 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
| 20 | I saw the biggest , steepest cylinders of water I 'd ever seen from the relative sanctuary of the beach , and Pottz finally landed the world title . |
| 21 | We finally departed from the house as the pillager 's husband was scrabbling through the kitchen drawers in search of a rubber band he knew he 'd once seen in there somewhere … |
| 22 | They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons . |
| 23 | Ronni also understood now that hurt look she 'd sometimes seen in his eyes during his angry exchanges with Silvia . |
| 24 | She was more bothered than ever , for Timothy 's eyes had a dreamy look which she 'd never seen in them before , and he 'd lingered over the girl 's name whenever he had used it . |
| 25 | Most of the food was of a kind that she 'd never seen in the shops ; there was no wine or beer , but Belov had a hip-flask of vodka . |
| 26 | I was n't too keen on this cheek to cheek business , with men I 'd never seen before and did n't know the names of , but I kept on telling myself not to be standoffish and to relax a bit , but as for jiving — no , I could n't do that . |
| 27 | He even had on a collar and tie , which I 'd never seen before and which he would tug at every now and then as if it were too tight . |
| 28 | Then they were gone , and he craned back to see behind him , to see if they were following . |
| 29 | From this house-painter , he learnt there were other deaf people , and that there was a society in Leeds , so he went along to see for himself . |
| 30 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |