Example sentences of "if they [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.

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1 If they went on seeing each other , would they not eventually produce the same complicatedly beautiful pattern of commitment as her friends had ?
2 However , one ‘ kinship defender ’ interviewed did speak of children ‘ having intense feelings for their own parents even if they 've never seen them ’ .
3 They would n't make those weird garden ornaments if they 'd ever seen a real nome . ’
4 Glasses in hand , the chattering groups mixed and mingled , broke and re-formed , greeted each other with glad cries as if they had n't seen each other for years , not just that afternoon .
5 Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all .
6 Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all .
7 Mind you some of them looked as if they had never seen a woman before .
8 Some people worry that learners will object if they do n't see the whole programme .
9 Men-at-arms … four of them … better if they do n't see you .
10 See money 's all right they probably love the money you can bring in but if they do n't see you to spend it or to share it .
11 There was a phrase screeched into the microphone by a hoarse-voiced member of Socialist Workers ' Students ' Organization : ‘ The government must be deaf , dumb and blind if they do not see the madness of this war . ’
12 If capitalist enterprises see the prospect of adequate profits then they will borrow investment funds without any government having to insist , and if they do not see investment as profitable then it is useless to try to force them .
13 If they have not seen it for themselves then it can not be true .
14 I do n't know if they have even seen the baby ’ .
15 In 1965 , in the Brezhnev era to which many old-style Communists were to look back with fond nostalgia , an Englishman observing the May Day festival on Red Square wrote : ‘ The tourists , even the Americans , are delighted : they clap , cheer , photograph , and at the end simply gasp , as if they have just seen the greatest show on earth …
16 That same look full understanding , unwelcome wonder — as if they have just seen everything , even the figure in the dream with his white coat and his black boots and , in his wake , a night sky full of souls .
17 If a skewbald or piebald horse is introduced into a group of other solid coloured or monochromed horses — chestnuts , bays , greys , browns , whites , and blacks — the solid coloured horses are likely to go quite silly , as if they have never seen anything so terrible and exciting in all their lives before !
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