Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 2 | And checked hastily to see that Marion could n't hear him . |
| 3 | The City Research project is now moving in to its second year and has already seen the publication of three reports . |
| 4 | Olsen has belief in frank , and has also seen him play U21 successfully . |
| 5 | Graham has been put before seminars of skin specialists from all over the British Isles — and has even seen one expert from Canada . |
| 6 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 7 | Bureaucracy is a dirty word even among bureaucrats , and in business there is a widespread view that managerial hierarchy kills initiative , crushes creativity , and has therefore seen its day . |
| 8 | The manager had watched Rangers play Dundee United at Ibrox last month and has therefore seen Walter Smith 's side put under pressure over two games — a two-goal lead having been lost in Glasgow before Ally McCoist eventually scored the winner . |
| 9 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |
| 10 | Once committed , he drew breath hard , and stooped nearsightedly to see what fate had granted him . |
| 11 | And Ive never seen a ball hit from that far out , rise in a straight line ( showing the power behind it ) . |
| 12 | I draw parallel with the door and crane forward to see into the room . |
| 13 | Lawyers , basically , are trained for and used to an adversary system — where they act either for the prosecution or plaintiff , or for the defence — and seem always to see things in terms of guilt or innocence . |
| 14 | During the 1970s , the government began a long programme under which medieval mosques would be restored and some of the glory of Iraq 's Islamic past reasserted , with Baghdad , Basra and Mosul again seen as centres of Arab culture . |
| 15 | Start the conversation in a normal voice , and watch carefully to see how the answer matches the question . |
| 16 | In the future , therefore , we must encourage publishers to be a little more forthcoming about the basis on which they offer readability data , and look carefully to see whether what they have calculated really is the population mean of the book in question . |
| 17 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |
| 18 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 19 | One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel . |
| 20 | So I says I 'll pop down and go inside to see what like it is . |
| 21 | Return to Corso di Porta Romana by going back up Via San Calimero , and go right to see two churches that are little visited . |
| 22 | The doctor wished to remove a lymph gland for examination , to verify HTLV3 , but I refused to allow this despite considerable pressure and went instead to see a homeopath . |
| 23 | I shut the front door gently , a symbolic gesture which shut out what sounds there were , and went upstairs to see what that nice lady , Mrs Hamilton , had provided in the way of beds . |
| 24 | This body of thought , sometimes called Neo-Hegelism , which had been introduced into Britain by Benjamin Jowett , Green 's tutor at Balliol , rejected the dominant philosophical view , derived from the Enlightenment , which was ‘ empiricist , individualistic , utilitarian ’ , and chose instead to see reality as ‘ an organic interconnected whole , no part of which was independent of the rest ’ . |
| 25 | Robert Bolt , the eminent playwright who had produced A Man For All Seasons and had just seen his screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia completed , wanted Ken for a Puck-like part for his forthcoming play , Gentle Jack . |
| 26 | She felt intensely sorry for poor Brian , living as he did with anxiety and insecurity , and had never seen the necessity of channelling any of her pity back into her own parched reserves . |
| 27 | It was new to these parts and had never seen nomes before . |
| 28 | Mrs Swales 's friends Liz Metcalfe and Gail O'Keefe said they were with her on the night and had never seen her assaulting Mrs Wilson . |
| 29 | The man had been in the wood and had perhaps seen the animal cemetery . |
| 30 | Everyone was shown what went on inside this large factory — familiar to us but a curiousity to those whose relations work here , and have never seen it before . ’ |