Example sentences of "[vb past] see how the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year Mrs Curdle asked to see how the previous year 's bouquet had worn , so that the doctor and his wife were in honour bound not to destroy these offerings . |
| 2 | Plus , plus you got to see how the other breeds are doing , and |
| 3 | His stubborn cousin , who saw his models as a kind of earth , part of the body and blood of the soil they dug , one impregnating the other , failed to see how the interchange he saw stamped on the dazed faces of these men could be smoothed away without losing the secret of how they lived , rooted and dumb and rough-barked as live willow trees . |
| 4 | Fraser and Azhar experimented to see how the feedforward net reacted when they fixed a piece of metal weighing 450 grammes onto the gripper . |
| 5 | We came to see how the prison is run . |
| 6 | I began to see how the literature I revered , the literature I loathed , behaved in its encounter with racial ideology . |
| 7 | I always carry the bag on my left shoulder so I can pull out clubs with my right hand , and I was about to pull out the driver when I hesitated and decided to see how the land lay . |
| 8 | While ‘ The Prophet ’ was asleep , a violent rainstorm swept across the countryside but when it ended and the farmer went to see how the fugitive minister had fared , he found that , miraculously , an area around the sleeping man had been left untouched by the rain . |
| 9 | Halfway through the afternoon I went to see how the lakeside revetment was going . |
| 10 | Pascoe had seen how the name filled her face with darkness . |
| 11 | ‘ Being a charity , we had obtained sponsorship and we wanted to see how the professionals regarded it . |
| 12 | ‘ The organiser asked me if I wanted to see how the money was spent and since then I 've been hooked . ’ |
| 13 | I wanted to see how the land lay . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted to see how the police train the dogs and it really made my day , ’ she said . |