Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to see [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 2 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 3 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 4 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 5 | There was a minor scuffle between Hegarty and a Unionist councillor and before desisting , Hegarty shouted to the gallery : ‘ Whom do you want to see in the chair ? ’ |
| 6 | Can you be more explicit about what it is you want to see in the North Yorkshire structure plan ? |
| 7 | Once you have formulated your idea of what you want to see in the future , then you need to focus on how you can get there . |
| 8 | It will certainly make you see how much you do not see , and then you can decide how much you want to see in the future . |
| 9 | If Wilko does go and we do get a hefty fee for him who would you like to see at the club ? ? |
| 10 | Would you like to see inside the cottage ? ’ |
| 11 | So is there an what kind of things would you like to see in the village and round about int eh way of more music or less music or a different music ? |
| 12 | What changes would you like to see in the format of slaloms ? |
| 13 | Mr Major praised his work yesterday and , in a reply to Mr Garel-Jones , said : ‘ It is characteristic of you to wish to see through the legislation you have been working on , and it is what your colleagues would have expected of you . |
| 14 | Mind you , there 's been a great pause on it while you went to see to the baby . |
| 15 | While you are in the palette reading menu , do not worry if you click one or two times too many and go past the palette you wish you wish to see on the screen . |
| 16 | You have to see beyond the boundary otherwise it 's a meaningless obsession . ’ |
| 17 | But what is for the most part in these stories a quiet desperation , is achieved at the cost of suppressing part of his own awareness , part of his own truth , and how bad that was we begin to see with The Portrait . |
| 18 | You know when we went to see about the flagstones ? |
| 19 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 20 | ‘ We need to see to the horses if they are to bear us any farther . |
| 21 | But first they wanted to see to the drainage at one particularly bad spot , where a stream was running down the path . |
| 22 | Most of the group members were quite young , Right-On , middle-class , intellectual , and had their own particular obsession which they wanted to see in the paper . |
| 23 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 24 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 25 | Once he had eaten and smeared two or three cakes round his face and all over the chair , he wanted to see round the place . |
| 26 | As early as 1886 its legal sub-committee had drawn up a whole series of amendments to the criminal law which it wanted to see on the statute book . |