Example sentences of "to see a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chirwas say they came to see a sick relative . |
| 2 | Participating as a group delegate and individual member in the vigorous AGM at Liverpool , I was surprised to see a religious service on the printed agenda , with the order of service available at the official information counter . |
| 3 | But the novels were soon to exhibit an interest in misogyny , and to see a connection between ‘ the old hoo-ha ’ and ‘ the old last end ’ — expressions used by Ormerod and Standish respectively , in Take a girl like you , for sexual intercourse and death . |
| 4 | ‘ I really do n't see why any hostess should be pleased to see a total stranger arrive at her dinner party . ’ |
| 5 | This year the festival brings you the chance to see a wide and varied selection of the films which will be remembered as the highlights of cinema in 1991 . |
| 6 | ‘ If you want to see a real mess , try our bathroom . |
| 7 | Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a beautiful glider damaged by incompetent handling on the ground . |
| 8 | Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice . |
| 9 | Stead argues that only constant inquiry ( for which I could substitute ‘ inside ethnography ’ ) can prevent such an unacceptable trend , and it is some comfort to see a probationary policewoman , such as Cressida Dick ( 1985 ) , pointing out the political compromises such autocracy can produce , but which few of the chief officers seem willing to admit or even acknowledge . |
| 10 | Jay at three in the morning — hello , young lovers , wherever you are ! — drunk , suddenly had to see a picture of Lucy . |
| 11 | They had passed through the blackest part of the valley now and it was a relief to see a light or two at Weem , and across the invisible river at Aberfeldy . |
| 12 | Perhaps I ought to see a doctor . ’ |
| 13 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 14 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 15 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 16 | Smugglers , escaped convicts , drenched fishermen , or they might have been just watching the storm , voyeuristically curious to see a boat break up in choppy water . |
| 17 | The line to Bathgate , reopened to passengers on 24 March 1986 ( including two new stations at Uphall and Livingston ) at a cost of £1.5million shared by six public bodies expected to see a top figure of 400,000 passengers annually . |
| 18 | She and Bill went to see a litter of pale , yellow puppies and Marjorie fell in love with the smallest bitch . |
| 19 | It was good to see a reference in your magazine to valve amplification ( EW + WW August 1991 ) , but I still have a certain frustration that you may be able to help me with . |
| 20 | Similarly , one would like to see a state of affairs in which many more people read and enjoyed poetry than had taken a degree in it . |
| 21 | Moreover , Dorothy 's Englishness was centuries old : among her cousins was one Charles Talbot — ‘ one of the Shakespear names ’ , she said — who owned a medieval abbey , ‘ and once Ezra and I crawled over the roof in a turret to see a copy of the Magna Charta , kept there in a glass case ’ . |
| 22 | He should repeat his assurance that , while Labour is opposed to the privatisation of water and electricity and wants to see a return to public control , it is not the party 's intention to clobber those who buy shares . |
| 23 | David Mills says that there was increasing pressure in the early Seventies to see a higher percentage of waste materials incinerated . |
| 24 | A year later , he played a central role in founding the Group of 89 , a faction made up of business and professional members of the BLCC who wanted to see a conservative model for Hong Kong 's political development . |
| 25 | And Prost knows that Honda would hate to see a future employee of Fiat , the owners of Ferrari , win the championship on their doorstep . |
| 26 | East Germany is obviously reluctant to see a repetition of the situation , especially before the all-important 40th anniversary on Saturday . |
| 27 | He said he had wanted to see a national statistics council to act as a protective agency 10 years ago . |
| 28 | Lawyers acting for the 14 nuns are due to see a judge in chambers today to ask for a judicial review which would effectively prevent ministry officials carrying out the slaughter at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery near Daventry . |
| 29 | Like many others in education , he would like to see a structure that meets the needs of all 16-to 19-year-olds by bringing together the academic A-level syllabuses , with all the various vocational courses , into a common system . |
| 30 | Most City analysts do not expect to see a dividend paid before 1992 and the less optimistic believe Lowndes will have to refinance itself again next year . |