Example sentences of "[verb] see it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
2 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
3 | He 's been head teacher here for seven years and has seen it get some of the best exam results in the country . |
4 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
5 | We would like to see it encompass these and other elements so as to allow every farmer in Wales an opportunity to volunteer a package of agri-environmental commitments drawn from a broad menu of approved activities , as the basis for a negotiated , long term , grant-aid agreement . ’ |
6 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
7 | I 've seen it done last week , . |
8 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
9 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
10 | Thus a crack two microns deep has twice the surface energy of a crack one micron deep but as we have seen it releases four times as much strain energy . |