Example sentences of "[adv] see the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 2 | Jessica had just seen the boys to bed when the call came . |
| 3 | ‘ Madam , it grieves me deeply to see the straits to which your bereavement has brought you , ’ observed the chancellor after a formal obeisance . |
| 4 | The Midland , however , cannily saw the profit to be made from exploiting the potential mass market and led the way . |
| 5 | I suspect that , if he imagines a dark grizzly bear trying to stalk seals over the snow , the Bishop will immediately see the answer to his problem . |
| 6 | From the outset he was at odds with the Conservatives , nominally his own party , who increasingly saw the return to normalcy , along with the need to return to the governmental conventions of party politics of the pre-war era , as the top priority . |