Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.

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1 So many fans are turning up to see Premier side CHAMDEN CITY these days that the club has been forced to buy the neighbouring supermarket .
2 School parties were bused in to see the existing power stations in action .
3 This touched a raw nerve and Muccio was instructed immediately to see Rhee and protest at this ‘ grave breach [ of ] ordinary diplomatic courtesy ’ .
4 A. The fact of the matter is that medical examination is carried out to see if they have any communicable disease .
5 ‘ What about Saturday , the following night , when Matthew was called out to see to the lights at Morvyl — did you hear him going or coming back ? ’
6 Audiences are packing in to see Paul Nicholas play the lead role in Barnum .
7 Cos people are geared up to see you at seven o'clock .
8 people are going out to see live bands again , and gigging is an important factor in establishing new acts .
9 When the passengers are cleaned up see if you can get this young lady , Irene Charial , alone and find out if she knows anything about the layout of the engine-room .
10 The theory being propounded here sees the global system as primarily a capitalist global system and the main forces in it as the transnational corporations , transnational capitalist classes and the culture-ideology of consumerism .
11 Only thirty people were allowed in to see me at one time .
12 After the usual formalities , and the realisation that ‘ You 're British are n't you ? ’ the officer 's colleague was called up to see AutoRoute do its mapping marvels .
13 Hours later an investigation involving firemen and police was going on to see if the fire was arson .
14 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 .
15 ‘ A quarter of my time is spent directly seeing new and on-going clients , a quarter of my time at ward rounds , meetings , seeing other professionals , etc ; a quarter spent with support workers — either possible new ones or on-going workers ; and a quarter spent keeping records , fixing meetings , doing wages , etc .
16 But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers .
17 By this time she was out of bed and Charlotte was running upstairs to see what the commotion was about .
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