Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACTRESS Minnie Driver , who tonight stars with Bill Paterson and Sinead Cusack in Channel 4 's premiere of the film God On The Rocks , has flown off to see in 1993 in New York . |
| 2 | I ask Tor , who has come across to see how I am coping , if this is normal , a guarded , off-the-cuff way of informing him that I am shit-scared and would like the weather to change . |
| 3 | Hello , Chris has come down to see what croquet is all about . |
| 4 | The TA course 's patrolling is coming on well and the visitor has moved on to see What the junior intake is doing . |
| 5 | Mrs Dawson praised Sarah for the times she has popped in to see if she could help . |
| 6 | CAMILLA Parker Bowles has vowed not to see Prince Charles to save her husband further pain . |
| 7 | Twice he 'd driven over to see his mother and come back optimistic that she 'd come round to the marriage and visit them one day soon . |
| 8 | He said he was called Horn and he 'd popped across to see the Duke of Hamilton or somesuch . |
| 9 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 10 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 11 | Then I did n't anticipate , I was yanked out of the back of the court , I 'd gone there to see some proceedings with people I was involved with and all of a sudden the barrister for the defendant said , is a Mr in court ? |
| 12 | A neighbour told him she 'd gone off to see her daughter that morning-that would be the Thursday — and would be back in a couple of days . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Thought you 'd gone backstage to see that little blonde . ’ |
| 14 | You do actually have to look through to see the light coming out ! |
| 15 | He would have been happy if he might have affected not to see her . |
| 16 | If Rhoda had gone to see her sister in Eastleech , surely she would have called in to see if she had any messages . |
| 17 | Might have dug a little for the human interest ; might even have probed around to see if there was any backstory worth the follow-up . |
| 18 | ‘ She might have gone up to see Angy and found Delia Forbes there … ’ |
| 19 | He himself would have gone anywhere to see a set of tack of strange cut or history . |
| 20 | Normally she would have wandered out to see who it was . |
| 21 | Having waited patiently to see the fruits of Independence , people are now asking how their ‘ daytime socialist ’ leader can afford to drive brand-new imported cars while ‘ shortage of foreign exchange ’ prevents purchase of spare parts for the run-down buses . |
| 22 | You only had to go abroad to see how we were regarded . |
| 23 | When the old Major , so soon to die , had travelled secretly to see his son and meet her , she recognized his courtesy because he was a gentleman , but there was no welcome and no warmth in him . |
| 24 | Indeed , just before his interview with Meese , he had dropped in to see McFarlane in his office precisely , McFarlane thought , to agonize over the fact that the diversion was a matter of record : ‘ I put it in a memo to the Admiral . ’ |
| 25 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 26 | ‘ I had to come especially to see you this morning , Leith , ’ he said earnestly as he fell into step with her . |
| 27 | I 've come round to see John . |
| 28 | Well I 'm just joking by saying you 've come round to see me have n't you ? |
| 29 | But that I 'm so glad you 've come here to see to his personal effects this way ? |
| 30 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |