Example sentences of "[verb] to see [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , you can have your erm if you were watching a programme and er , I 've done this , erm if you 're watching a programme and you want to see what the weather forecast is er you can have that superimposed on your programme . |
| 2 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 3 | He would wait to see what the negotiation process turned up , he said , but " only if real progress is made during negotiations , and if there are obvious and clearly defined benefits for my country and its people , will we consider any possible change to our present constitutional position " . |
| 4 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 5 | The broad guiding principle , attested by many authorities , is that one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question . |
| 6 | Thus Lord Bridge 's guiding principle could properly be expanded to read ‘ one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question and where he has done it . ’ |
| 7 | You have certain losers in Clubs and a good plan in hands like these is to play out the suit in which you have certain losers and wait to see what the opposition do . |
| 8 | Her mother had not noticed the incident and only turned to see what the matter was when Joyce began to scream . |
| 9 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was . |
| 11 | Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was . |
| 12 | Test the kitchen cold tap fully opened to see what the flow and pressure is like . |
| 13 | They 'd be better off waiting to see what the law is before wasting money on taking action . |
| 14 | His nephew , David Moores , is chairman at Liverpool but Everton are treading water , waiting to see what the future holds . |
| 15 | Pat , whose baby is due in four days , says : ‘ It 's unnerving , this waiting to see what the future holds , but there is n't a lot I can do . |
| 16 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |
| 17 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 18 | She craned to see what the man was dragging , it looked like a body . |
| 19 | An arm of the law arrived the same day to take Sam away from him , and also demanded to see what the man called ‘ the place of lodging ’ . |
| 20 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 21 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
| 22 | Mrs Tibbs looked out from behind the tall mirror she was carrying to see what the commotion was . |
| 23 | He strode to her , eyes blazing , and shouted , ‘ Why did you specifically come to see me the minute you found out I had my own investment bank ? ’ |
| 24 | Half the faces in the stalls were turned the wrong way , trying to see what the fuss was about in the back row . |
| 25 | The linesman ( one in particular ) would nt make a single decision but waited to see what the ref was giving before flagging . |
| 26 | I think you have to see what the system is and then see how you get it to work for yourself . |
| 27 | Sizewell B project manager Jim McFarlane told a meeting of the local community liaison committee : ‘ We believe the case for more nuclear power is irresistible but we have to see what the Government says before deciding whether to submit the C station application . |
| 28 | It might be that before you start that if we training you need to see what the performance gap actually is . |
| 29 | The infant will turn to see what the adult is looking at , as if the adult 's behaviour draws the baby 's attention to a potentially interesting event . |
| 30 | The Boer War was on and the first sort of major conflict erm in the period of movie history , and naturally people wanted to see what the war was like . |