Example sentences of "can see to " in BNC.

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1 Saturday was not a suitable day as it is the only day that teachers can go shopping and can see to other family matters .
2 Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) .
3 In a region of high rolling hills , the wall is like a gigantic roller-coaster extending as far as the eye can see to east and west ; Garvine wrote of the wall that it ‘ is built on such a scale that you would think it was the work of Gods rather than men ’ .
4 After around ⅔ of a mile the route curves around as though it 's heading towards the village of Satterthwaite only to curve round back east — keep a look out for Borck Crags , rocky outcrops you can see to your left .
5 On this question of priorities here I understand that if we go along with local presses , to the housing corporation that this is a priority and then they , they can see to that make the money available when can we go along again with another priorities ?
6 And even if it has n't , maybe Rohmer can see to it that you 'll spend the rest of your life behind bars along with Jimmy Devlin ?
7 I can see to all the nitty-gritty for you — I know you 're not a family for bothering your heads with that sort of thing , you 've got better things to do .
8 I confess that in spite of the many negative sides I can see to you I would have expected you to be good management material . ’
9 ‘ We can no more see to the bottom of the next few hours , than we can see to the bottom of this river what I catches hold of .
10 Bear in mind that any speed limit is a maximum , it does not mean that it is safe to drive at that speed , always take into account all the conditions at the time , never drive so fast that you can not stop well within the distance you can see to be clear .
11 Well , he , it 's not that far away and it 's , if he 's in here and they can see to him , fair enough , or they might be able to point him in a different direction , a better direction
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