Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move is widely expected to see the society — which is currently a tied agent of Standard Life for the sale of investments — reviewing the options for starting its own life-assurance operation . |
| 2 | He could n't get an immediate break-down of where the money had gone so asked to see the manager . |
| 3 | ‘ He only wants to see the child enjoy herself with her friends . ’ |
| 4 | He obviously wants to see the Christians in the capital city of the empire . |
| 5 | If we consider for a moment the extent to which the hero-kings of early agricultural societies did indeed come to play a maternal , provident role with regard to those dependent on them we can perhaps begin to see the truth of the claim that they became the heirs of the matriarchs . |
| 6 | Load of savages they were , only come to see the girls . |
| 7 | The Variety Club 's Chief Barker , Marsha Ratcliff , said : ‘ You only had to see the expressions on the competitors ’ faces to see how much they were enjoying themselves . ’ |
| 8 | I suddenly wanted to see the work I was doing laid out in front of me . |
| 9 | Despite being repeatedly arrested and brought back home , bruised and beaten by the police , she finally got to see the King by throwing herself into the road in front of the Royal car . |
| 10 | Holding back he said , on impulse : ‘ Grandma , I just want to see the lake , before I go … |
| 11 | " Just want to see the set-up my little girlie 's embarked on , " he had said down the telephone . |
| 12 | We just want to see the scenery . ’ |
| 13 | I think they just want to see the football , I do n't think there are going to be any riots ; there 's no organisation , no just going for the fun . |
| 14 | ‘ At the moment , no-one really knows what is going to happen so we are just waiting to see the outcome of today 's ( Thursday ) meeting in Paris and then be guided by FISA . ’ |
| 15 | There 'd been a fault in her original logic which he 'd seized upon , but she was already beginning to see the fallacy . |
| 16 | She explains : ‘ One of the first things that all these countries are doing — and we 're just starting to see the benefits of this — is to install a digital overlay network linking key cities . ’ |
| 17 | Having to hold the button down all the time made it a bit awkward for looking out of the side window , but by craning her neck she could just manage to see the hole to the rear of the craft . |
| 18 | Therefore the police generally require to see the certificate to satisfy themselves that the motor vehicle is correctly insured but in some cases of doubt the policy may have to be examined or enquiries made of the issuing firm . |
| 19 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 20 | From here you can already start to see the rim of the mountains that enclose the cirque . |
| 21 | She was , as these interests indicate , zealously determined to see the growth of a professional spirit among teachers . |
| 22 | I just wanted to see the house again , to look at my father 's things . |
| 23 | yes well it 's only just like you do if you 've not got erm teletext and you just wanted to see the picture . |
| 24 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 25 | Spurred on by the promise of really good lighting , more than a million women have already paid to see the Chippendales . |
| 26 | People have always travelled to see the world and to find out how other people live . |
| 27 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 28 | I would still prefer to see the priority being a quick release of the ball to the backs , purely because they are looking as dangerous now as they have done for years . |
| 29 | ‘ I was on the other end of the question for most of my life as a British Telecom customer manager , and I always tried to see the view of the underdog , because there is just a chance he might be right , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The main block is that the London-based mandarins of the BCS still appear to see the world from the seventies standpoint of the large data processing installation or university department , full of Cobol or Fortran programmers , churning out hand-crafted systems for mainframes . |