Example sentences of "[vb mod] see [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must see about more help . ’ |
| 2 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 3 | She looked longingly at the keg , then with a casual twitch of her head added : ‘ I 'll see to that brandy while I 'm waiting , ’ and slipped out to the passage and the cellar door . |
| 4 | The 250cc British Grand Prix in Sundays sunshine provided some of the most exciting action you 'll see for some time . |
| 5 | We 've had erm , he may see at some stage , he might just see my son Christopher |
| 6 | We may see in this encouragement of scholars not only an attempt to improve the status of the realm , but a genuine curiosity for learning on the part of Charles himself . |
| 7 | Concentrated in the area of Hatu-Lia and Cailaco , the patrols could see from these hill positions across the wide Nanura Plains , covered in 6 feet to 8 feet ( 2–3m ) high buffalo grass , to the Dutch border . |
| 8 | The river — it stretched away as far as he could see in either direction , and could not therefore be a lake — was very wide . |
| 9 | We shall see below that consent may constitute the difference between the sexual expression of shared love between two people and the serious offence of rape . |
| 10 | As we shall see in more detail in the next chapter , there are many features of such conditions that make them quite obviously inimical to the creative act . |
| 11 | However , we have already pointed out , by implication , one very important syntactic consequence : only the ascriptive adjectives are eligible to appear predicatively , that is , in a position like that of hungry in : ( 19 ) the antelopes are hungry As was already indicated in Chapter 1 , and as we shall see in more detail in Chapter 3 , predicative position is the surface structure which expresses the intensional relation of assignment , and assignment does require that the property of the adjective should be construed as applied to the entity of the subject noun phrase . |
| 12 | ‘ Hugo will see to that sort of thing , ’ Georgina said . |
| 13 | Three weeks ago McLaren announced that its ultimate supercar , the F1 , which we will see at this show next year , will also be powered by a BMW V12 — a six-litre Motorsports unit . |
| 14 | The law recognises that the shareholders ' interest lies ultimately in the value of their shares and not in the business as such , or at least , it recognises that it should be the shareholders who determine the outcome of a bid , and hence ( as we will see in more detail in Chapter 5 ) prohibits certain forms of defensive action on the part of the target company board which could have the effect of depriving the members of an opportunity to dispose of their investment on favourable terms . |
| 15 | The town of Isafjördur is on the far side of the fjord , a long way from the town , and reached by a bus ride past the first fish-drying frame you will see in this part of the island . |
| 16 | However , as we will see in this chapter , it is possible to carry out systematic studies of production ; and the results of such studies have an essential contribution to make to our understanding of language processing . |
| 17 | As you will see from this description of the account executive role in your account group , the agency has to try to allow for different levels of contact with your own organization . |
| 18 | In 1893 while recovering from a bout of influenza he wrote You will see from this heading that I am not dead yet , nor likely to be . |
| 19 | As you will see from this issue of AEA Times , there has been an enormous response to the announcement that we are to restructure into three divisions from 1 April next year . |
| 20 | As you will see from this supplement , AEA offers a wide range of consultancy , technical services and specialist products to the process industries and , as Business Development Director for the Process Industries , it is my pleasure to use this opportunity to introduce myself and AEA . |
| 21 | But I think he did probably just , because when I got up er when I co , you see when I come down the stairs I can see through that window look |
| 22 | Stare at something immediately in front of you and make a mental note of what you can see above that object and below it , to the right and to the left . |
| 23 | Well because erm the moon here has a gravitational effect on the sea water as we can see on this side . |
| 24 | And when he came into the Pincushion Room and rested his elbows on the window-ledge , he would look out of the window at the garden bright with midsummer sun or bathed in moonlight and think , all this is mine , that garden , that fruit cage within the flint walls , that lake , the Little Wood , as far as I can see on either side of me and in front of the house and behind , all that is mine … |
| 25 | Sometimes biblical chant sounds too much like adaptation from simple anthropological textbooks , but we can see at any rate the exemplification of the way in which Lawrence 's ‘ capering redskins ’ had to be for Eliot now ‘ Life ’ but ‘ not the last word , only the first ’ . |
| 26 | In the centre of the village green stood a black-spired church , nothing more than a tower and nave hastily thrown together , the type you can see in any village in England or France . |
| 27 | Well , as you can see from that slide , a much better first half with four of our , four out of six of our businesses getting brownie points , especially newspapers and the merchant banking . |
| 28 | We can see from that table that even on unconstrained land , we are talking about a difference of point one nine percent of land take . |
| 29 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 30 | As you can see from this month 's fab first-level demo , this is classic platform action with loads of stuff to collect and different baddies to avoid , or jump onto . |