Example sentences of "see any [noun] in [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I ca n't see any sense in subjecting him to a hard race in the Gold Cup when I know that his blood has been wrong , ’ he explained .
2 Now I ca n't see any sense in throwing whatsit , the javelin .
3 No , I do n't see any purpose in reporting this .
4 It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period .
5 ‘ We do n't see any advantage in staying small , ’ managing director Ian Lockwood says .
6 ‘ I can not see any logic in taking a bowler like Paul Jarvis .
7 ‘ Frankly I do n't see any point in staying till morning and subjecting myself to yet another evening of arguments . ’
8 Well you know really I ca n't , I ca n't see any point in staying around here myself , yeah , it 's just my mum really , if anything happened to her then I 'll move you know I 'd move from Newcastle , Stoke On Trent area
9 I do n't see any point in repeating or emphasising to the point of boring you .
10 Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine .
11 I suddenly decided I did n't see any point in submitting them , I said .
12 ‘ We did n't see any point in hanging around .
13 ‘ We did n't see any point in hanging around .
14 Cos that was last week 's mid morning show trail and I do n't I do n't see any point in playing what 's happening next week .
15 I tidy and vacuum the sitting room after she 's gone to bed — I do n't see any point in doing it in the morning because it 'll only get messed up again .
16 the labour because erm I ca n't see any point in doing half a job .
17 I do n't see any point in adding complications to life .
18 I do n't see any point in having a formal dining room with a table stuck in the middle .
19 Can not see any point in keeping this large number Soviet nationals who are clearly great source contention between Soviets and ourselves .
20 Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial .
21 At her first interview in a large London teaching hospital , an occupational therapist was told : ‘ I must be perfectly honest , I do n't see any point in showing you round . ’
22 She was more than well acquainted with Lubor 's proclivity to see an invitation to grow amorous where there was none , though since he could n't do more than verbally flirt over the dinner table she could n't see any harm in accepting .
23 the written transcript will only be used in preference to the tape if neither prosecution nor defence sees any advantage in playing it , but it does not necessarily follow from this that the tape discloses nothing more than the transcript .
24 This created an entirely new situation in which few saw any purpose in pursuing the attempt to build the structures envisaged at Leeds .
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