Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] to see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the account is well run , you should not need to see the management supervisor often , but , to be serious , a valuable contribution may well be made to your business through his or her wider experience — a senior agency account director has usually acquired a very passable working knowledge of more different businesses than most middle managers ( at least ) in the agency 's client companies . |
| 2 | Dealers may not like to see the extent of the drop in auction prices quantified by the Sculpture Index , but it is important to remember that the figures are based on a large number of actual transactions , not a selection of retail sales . |
| 3 | Kemel Kurspahic , admitted he might not live to see the liberation of his city or country . |
| 4 | She had given the instruction herself , saying she could not bear to see the person who had been the instrument through whom she had heard such infamous news . |
| 5 | He stared at her and she could n't fail to see the pain in his eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ she breathed , looking away from him because she could n't bear to see the expression in his face . |
| 7 | But he had been there with Montaine and he could n't bear to see the place again — not then . |
| 8 | He could n't wait to see the look on her face , he could n't wait to start his new life . |
| 9 | We would not want to see the scheme a held up or at least , the timetable that we could set down . |
| 10 | I would just say I would not like to see the reserves fall much below £1.5m . |
| 11 | She hoped the clock would break down so that she would not have to see the bird again ; she did not like it . |
| 12 | ‘ And he certainly ca n't demand to see the child when and where he wants , say every weekend . ’ |
| 13 | I ca n't wait to see the video |
| 14 | Now she ca n't wait to see the end result , when Channel Four screens its adaptation of her best-selling novel early in the New Year . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't wait to see the house you 've rented for us . |
| 16 | ‘ We get plenty of people in here identifying cadavers — I ca n't ask to see the credentials of every one . |
| 17 | It is almost as if having failed , the surgical staff can not bear to see the patient . |
| 18 | But I can not bear to see the stars , even though I know they 're there all right , and I do see them , because Tod looks upwards at night , as everybody does , and coos and points . |
| 19 | The French sneer that , because Mr Van den Broek gets on badly with his prime minister , Ruud Lubbers , he can not bear to see the summiteers running the show . |
| 20 | It has a hard fight ahead , one that the nation can not afford to see the BBC lose . |