Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all goin' along to see the relief officer , ’ he soothed her . |
| 2 | THE Llandudno flood victims will get a boost today when the Duke of Edinburgh flies in to see the disaster for himself . |
| 3 | The programmer may choose a long-distance view of the whole execution space of a program , a reduced view as an AND/OR tree , or zoom in to see the details of a single call . |
| 4 | We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces . |
| 5 | Who 've actually come in to see the shows to get there point of view to say what they like and what they dislike . |
| 6 | Just before she had gone up to rest and change for dinner , Robert 's daughter , Alice , had come down to see the company . |
| 7 | She 'd just got some leverage , loosened enough to see the front of a plywood box , when a soft footstep in the doorway made her leap , guiltily , to her feet . |
| 8 | She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation . |
| 9 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 10 | I was longing to say no when she rang on Sunday but simply could not — she is married to a German and only comes home to Scotland once a year because of the costs , and I know how much she likes to come through to see the shops and friends . |
| 11 | We have come here to see the king and we must all go into the temple . |
| 12 | We need to know how to see the world as the Christian Fathers saw it ; and the purpose of reascending to origins is that we should be able to return , with greater spiritual knowledge , to our own situation . |
| 13 | Users tend not to see the errors because they 're corrected by the network software , but the need for retries slows things down . |
| 14 | Well I mean that , they do n't expect necessarily to see the evidence do they ? |
| 15 | Schinkel came specially to see the Docks , and did not even like Nash 's Regent Street . |
| 16 | Andrew Jones and Chris Gill from Oxford are shortly to set off to see the pyramids . |
| 17 | I came here to see the installation of an air-conditioning unit , not to be involved in your personal life ! ’ |
| 18 | When George III dropped by to see the estate |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll be going in to see the manager first thing Monday to sort out my future . |
| 20 | You do actually have to look through to see the light coming out ! |
| 21 | I bet he did n't even look up to see the goalkeeper coming at him and a defender closing in ready to clatter him when he scored . |
| 22 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 23 | All that was a drop in the Clyde compared with the crowd at Celtic Park in April 1898 , when 50,000 turned up to see THE game … and the rest ! |
| 24 | The one score and three who turned up to see the morning game against Dorning had a real treat . |
| 25 | The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went . |
| 26 | Wally received a Benefit at the end of 1953–54 and almost 4,000 admirers turned out to see the Palace beat a London XI by six goals to five ! |
| 27 | The Doctor turned back to see the ship glowing bright red . |
| 28 | After around a quarter of a mile , look back to see the outline of a Romano-British settlement . |
| 29 | Now we 're going around to see the boy 's we 've got the love of my life . |
| 30 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |