Example sentences of "[noun] to see [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But at least give that person whose turn er , on the Management Committee for representing er , another committee , give him the opportunity to s either speak on it , or to say whether or not he wishes to carry on and of course to see what the vote people would take , and to put himself forward even so , which unfortunately , I was n't er , able to do so .
2 Now let us take a look to see what the future might hold .
3 I think we 'll look at the news in a few minutes to see what the weather 's going to be and then , do you want any ice cream or anything ?
4 His comments were useful because they provide us all with the opportunity to see what the Opposition have in mind and the approach that they will take in the run-up to the next election and if they were ever to be elected to government .
5 He said : ‘ One has to keep it under review to see what the need might be . ’
6 Finally we asked very loudly if the store was going broke and somebody within earshot scooted out of a doorway to see what the ruckus was about .
7 One energetic character asked if we minded waiting while he climbed another two hundred feet to see what the view over a nearby rise was like .
8 Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is .
9 She pushed it off , rose and went to look out of the window to see what the weather was like .
10 Stanley lowered his habitual newspaper to see what the exchange was about .
11 The exception may nevertheless be worthwhile making to see what the landlord will offer as a compromise .
12 A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about .
13 Travelogues were immensely popular , people had n't the resources to travel in those days easily unless they were wealthy , and here was a chance to see what the world was like in various places that were inaccessible erm to the average member of the audience .
14 Now he spends his days writing his memoirs 60,000 words so far gardening and reading the Daily Telegraph to see what the enemy says ’ .
15 Leaving me to continue cleaning up , my husband climbed the ladder into the roof space to see what the situation was there .
16 Expecting the visitor to knock to gain admittance , the signalman walked towards the door to see what the visitor wanted .
17 First , to diagnose it correctly , second to locate exactly where the weakness in understanding is and third to do the necessary homework on it — that is to examine the matter to see what the truth of the situation is .
18 This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat .
19 Then the old female golden eagle came out into the gloom to see what the fuss was .
20 A salient aspect of the addressee , her ability to see what the child can see , has been changed by the utterance of b and the acts accompanying the utterance .
21 He had no time to see who the man was .
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