Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos if we get there see car . |
| 2 | We went in to see Jennie before we left . |
| 3 | Then , after the party we went along to see Man at The Lyceum . |
| 4 | We looked down to see goldfinches and snow buntings feasting on fallen seeds in the heaped litter of salt marsh plants : sea lavender and sea purslane . |
| 5 | Peter Fowler is the first name that springs to mind as the hardest worker on the Tour , purely because we do n't see Nick Faldo too often ! |
| 6 | " We do n't see people suffering immediately from drinking water , so the EPA can decide it 's not a problem they have to deal with right away " , he said , adding that , " the programme is a shambles " . |
| 7 | The trouble is , we do n't see eye to eye , or , more correctly , our minds move in different channels . |
| 8 | But in embryonic wounds we do not see lamellipodia . |
| 9 | Lawrence added : ‘ It must be stressed that we do not see ball-tampering in our domestic game as a serious problem , but we are determined to stamp it out . |
| 10 | If logic and reason can interpret the information sent in by the senses and produce a conclusion that would change as the information changes , it is emotion that clouds our vision and leads to a state in which we do not see things as they are . |
| 11 | According to Malebranche , in his Search after Truth ( 1675 ) , we do not see material things in the world directly . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'ave n't seen thoo since t'funeral . ’ |
| 13 | We 've also seen Butterfly , Delta and Indian Fighter profiles , each cut from shopping bag plastic with the aid of a hardboard template . |
| 14 | We 've just seen Manchester United blast five goals past Leicester City , and it 's that sort of form they 'll need next Wednesday if they are to stay in the European Cup . |
| 15 | We 've just seen Manchester United blast five goals past Leicester City , and it 's that sort of form they 'll need next Wednesday if they are to stay in the European Cup . |
| 16 | We 've seen cars submerged , houses underwater , we 've even seen fish swimming down the High Street in Uffington |
| 17 | We 've not seen nanny all week with working in a separate school . |
| 18 | We 've already seen examples of genes that bias meiosis in their own favour . |
| 19 | ‘ For one thing we 've hardly seen Tara and , for another , we do n't know what kind of spells and enchantments they might have strewn about . ’ |
| 20 | We 've all seen pictures of Page 3 girls and pornographic images of women showing the female body in a constantly inviting , sexual way just walking into a newsagent 's on a Sunday morning often means you are surrounded by them ) and it is hardly surprising if girls themselves , as well as men , sometimes feel confused ; believing that girls might ‘ want ’ to be raped , or are asking for trouble , if they dress up to go out , or behave independently by going out or walking home alone . |
| 21 | We 've never seen hilt nor hair of that man for well over a year now . |
| 22 | She was nearly hysterical , with some reason if what she said about the Germans was true , but we had not seen Anna . |
| 23 | We have even seen lecturers complete their lectures and leave the room while the students have had to sit for another few minutes taking down the last load from the blackboard ! |
| 24 | We have already seen evidence of this in Zande witchcraft beliefs with their eager concern to assimilate and ‘ naturalize ’ new information so that it is consistent with the basic assumptions which Zande take for granted . |
| 25 | ‘ Within the group , ’ he says , ‘ we have already seen benefits in both operational and strategic terms , enabling us to operate more efficiently and plan more effectively . |
| 26 | Since the banking was taken on we have already seen £4 million in deposit balances and also hope to complete a financial arrangement with RoyScot which could provide £20k in commission to the Branch . ’ |
| 27 | We have already seen examples of how you may , if you are not careful , forfeit your redundancy rights , the chance to claim constructive dismissal or indeed all your statutory employment rights in the event that your contract is frustrated . |
| 28 | 4.6 There is ample further evidence for regarding the second and third elements in such sequences — unlike the others we have seen so far — as jointly equivalent to a clause at the intensional level ; let us consider the four points which follow : First , most or all such phrases accept the insertion of the explicit predicator to be in front of the adjective ( and to be seems to be more or less obligatory when such adjectives are questioned ) ; we have already seen examples ( e.g. ( 35 ) , ( 41 ) ) . |
| 29 | Over the past decade or so we have also seen changes in our lifestyle with dogs . |
| 30 | We have also seen improvements in production safety , and communications , all the result of TOP improvements . |