Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] see a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dante would appear to have seen a striking clock at least fifteen years before the Visconti clock of 1335 was installed ; he may have seen the iron clock placed in the campanile of the church of Sant' Eustorgio in Milan in 1309 — the first Italian public clock of which we have knowledge . |
| 2 | He did not remember having seen a telephone . |
| 3 | In principle , one could have expected to see a list of such bodies appended as a Schedule to the Act , but the Lord Chancellor , with all his ‘ numerous and talented counsellors ’ , was unable to cause one to be drawn up . |
| 4 | All tidy and comfortable , though she would have preferred to see a little color about the place . |
| 5 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 6 | so as much i hate it ( i would have loved to see a norwegian playing for leeds — i guess the dream will have to wait ) Frank is for sure going . |
| 7 | I would have liked to see a slightly higher register developed , moving more towards a normative academic usage and away from the predominantly plain-language lexis which characterises the work . |