Example sentences of "see [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll see about it . ’ |
| 2 | Oh aye , it is painful but I thought it 's not going away so I 'd better go and see about it . |
| 3 | And if he says no say thank you we 'll see about it ! |
| 4 | You 'll have to go and see about it then . |
| 5 | The steam was so thick that she could not see through it and she thought she was alone in the room . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's my least favourite kind of music ever , because I can see through it all . |
| 7 | You can see through it . |
| 8 | I ca n't see through it , but through it we shall have to go . |
| 9 | The window in the bedroom was very small and all he could see through it were the roof-tops lit , as the previous night , by a full moon . |
| 10 | This second metal was very strange as we could see through it to some mysterious writing and pictures . |
| 11 | Because I can see through it I still think I can escape . |
| 12 | All this does is accentuate its thinness and , if your hair is a light colour like Aimee 's [ left ] , you can actually see through it which makes it look even finer . ’ |
| 13 | He could quite clearly see through it to the crushed grass on which it lay but , when he gingerly touched a scale that was a mere golden sheen on thin air , it felt solid enough . |
| 14 | Well no it 's not that I just think it 's the I do n't know you can see through it more . |
| 15 | Read it again , I could n't see through it . |
| 16 | Although you can still see through it . |
| 17 | What role do you see for it after the transition ? |
| 18 | I always cringe when I see a lorry like that coming on the road when you ca n't see past it |
| 19 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 20 | From what I could see of it , the notebook seemed well designed . |
| 21 | From what I can see of it , it must be quite spectacular . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Er — you 've — hm — not told me any more lies , then ? ’ she strove desperately hard to get herself back together , although from what she could see of it Ven was n't objecting that his kisses had the power to scatter all sensible thought . |
| 23 | From what I can see of it . |
| 24 | I thought of the metal gauze idea because when light hits a gauze cylinder you ca n't see behind it although anyone inside can look out , and when you put the louvres across as well you further disguise their presence . |
| 25 | Behind and above — a gaudy striped umbrella , on a pole stuck into the deck , tilted so that we do not see behind it — one of those huge six-foot diameter jobs . |
| 26 | ‘ The cab was so full of smoke , I could n't see into it , ’ Paul Sharples said . |
| 27 | The box is screened so you ca n't see into it , giving the bird some privacy . |
| 28 | He held the mirror up so that Lucien could see into it . |
| 29 | Fictional stressing of deep connections between primitive and developed man , as well as the connections between primitive ritual and modern dramatic and religious practice stressed by Cornford , Harrison , Frazer , and the others encouraged Eliot to interpret the Rivers book in a way which let him see in it a reflection of his personal crisis . |
| 30 | If you look at , say , American TV wrestling , you can already see in it a strutting prediction of the showbiz-sports of the future , where drug-enhanced body-sculpture plays a part both in the athletic demands of the spectacle and in the personality-selling which is its true purpose . |