Example sentences of "and see " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , they can be demonstrated and tried at height to get the idea and to see the problems which can arise if they are not neatly executed . |
| 3 | ‘ The locals come for the entertainment , and to see who 's buying into their village , ’ observed one auction-goer . |
| 4 | But not so ( we are told ) : Conservative advocates of tariffs and social reforms like old age pensions , wages councils , regulation of sweated trades were , Fforde argues , simply engaged in ‘ principled opportunism ’ ; this was ‘ not Collectivist Conservatism but expedient Conservatism ’ , and to see it as otherwise would be to allow oneself to be ‘ misled by manufactured appearances ' or what Fforde describes elsewhere as the gap between ‘ professed stance and true intention ’ . |
| 5 | And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead … |
| 6 | And to see that — ’ |
| 7 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 8 | Not only are we not helped by scholastic logic to acquire knowledge of the forms , natures , or essences of things , and to see how other properties flow from them , but also it is extremely doubtful whether such knowledge is possible anyway . |
| 9 | Geoffrey Howe , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leon Brittan , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in overall charge of government spending , wanted to look at the longer-term trends and to see how public expenditure could be successfully controlled in the 1980s . |
| 10 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 11 | ‘ There is no need to be ashamed , ’ he said to himself , getting up off the bed and making his way to the door to see what his native Forest looked like in daylight and to see what sort of world it was where a man could be free and alone and full of shame . |
| 12 | We can improve our ability to understand our horse if we can gradually train ourselves to observe it more intently , and to see in what situations and in what context different sounds , movements , and behaviour are used . |
| 13 | It was emotionally captivating to see a truck laden with consumer goods draw up at Tazarbu , to hear the driver announce that he had a new poem from Muhammad Dabub in Ajdabiya , and to see shopkeepers , customers and driver sit in the shade to listen to the poem . |
| 14 | In 1667 the Marquess of Worcester , as Constable of St Briavels and Warden of the Forest of Dean , was ordered to revive the Forest courts there and to see that the Forest laws were obeyed : their discontinuance had brought about ‘ great destruction of timber and retardment of its future growth ’ . |
| 15 | The man schooled to regard policy questions in technical terms and to see controversial matters of principle in terms of party management has been learning that he is a Tory . |
| 16 | The annual Film and TV Festival each autumn offers the chance to view new films early , and to see some off beat films . |
| 17 | it is still far too common to see charges applied to accounts , or interest rates changed , without customers being fully informed , and to see new types of accounts opened without existing customers being told that they could benefit from them . |
| 18 | They argue that the differential in living standards between the two groups is minimal and to see this as social mobility is to detract attention from the important fact that they are all part of the large urban poor whose poverty is due to the wider social formation and , in particular , the capitalist mode of production . |
| 19 | Now we have to go to Normandy to get an idea of what those hamlets and farmsteads looked like in apple-blossom-time fifty years ago , and to see the profusion of wildflowers that once filled the hedgerows and verges . |
| 20 | Here he was impressed by America 's industrial progress and in 1862 he visited London for its World Exhibition and to see the museums of South Kensington . |
| 21 | In the US there is a general call for dentists to become more holistic and to see dentistry as an integral part of health rather than treating patients as walking sets of teeth . |
| 22 | The grazier 's main problems are to provide leys of palatable and nutritious grasses and clovers and to see that these are consumed in the lush , leafy state before they grow to stem and seed . |
| 23 | It was especially popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the whole of fashionable society decamped from London to Bath once a year to take the waters and to see and be seen . |
| 24 | This is n't the case at all , and to see why , one need only to look at the composition of the rocks involved . |
| 25 | Psst ! ’ then , ‘ Miss ! ’ and to see a young man stepping from the side of the coalhouse where he had evidently been waiting . |
| 26 | The duty of the auditor is to see that the accounts have been prepared in accordance with the legal requirements and to see that proper accounting practices have been observed in the compilation of the accounts . |
| 27 | On a visit to New York that summer I was stopped short by an elaborate poster on 47th Street welcoming all to Danny 's Den for drinks and food , and to see the appearance of ‘ the one and only Miss Ella Shields ( from London , England ) , the Original Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 28 | And to see what sees the cloud through your eyes — |
| 29 | I am full of gratitude to Thee that Thou hast deemed me worthy to take part in this festival with Thee , and to see Thy works , and to understand Thy governance . ’ |
| 30 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |