Example sentences of "have [verb] see a " in BNC.
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| 1 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 2 | John Chant asked how the above was progressing and I explained that we have had initial draft typeset — he has asked to see a copy which I have passed to him today . |
| 3 | She looked at Edward and said casually , ‘ Joanna has gone to see a sow at Mr Jarvis 's farm . |
| 4 | Oh they would just tell you some extraordinary story they 'd seen They 'd heard Seen a ghost or heard a ghost or a something . |
| 5 | In principle , one could have expected to see a list of such bodies appended as a Schedule to the Act , but the Lord Chancellor , with all his ‘ numerous and talented counsellors ’ , was unable to cause one to be drawn up . |
| 6 | All tidy and comfortable , though she would have preferred to see a little color about the place . |
| 7 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 8 | so as much i hate it ( i would have loved to see a norwegian playing for leeds — i guess the dream will have to wait ) Frank is for sure going . |
| 9 | I would have liked to see a slightly higher register developed , moving more towards a normative academic usage and away from the predominantly plain-language lexis which characterises the work . |
| 10 | He was conscious on admission , explained he had felt unwell for the last few days and had intended seeing a doctor today . |
| 11 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've come to see a young man from the place where I work , ’ she said , trying to sound firm and businesslike . |
| 13 | A Scotland Yard spokesman said a number of people had reported seeing a man who answers the suspect 's description behaving suspiciously in Acton . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got to see a man about a job , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's why I 've got to see a man about a job . ’ |
| 16 | And so you 've going to see a solicitor , you know what assets you 've got , you know who your family and dependents are . |
| 17 | And she also wondered why on earth she had desired to see a kiwi . |
| 18 | He said he had wanted to see a national statistics council to act as a protective agency 10 years ago . |
| 19 | T. H. Green had hoped to see a dialogue between opposing interests in a society where self-sacrifice would overcome self-interest , and where citizenship rather than class consciousness would determine priorities . |
| 20 | There , where I had hoped to see a fine , impressive house , was nothing but a blackened heap of stones , with the silence of death about it . |
| 21 | Although most had planned to see a return on their original investments within a year or two , the actual timescales were three years or more in most cases , the report says . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's gone to see a friend . ’ |
| 23 | And once that has begun to change , the peasant is off because he , he , he , he 's begun to see a new world that he can realize . |
| 24 | Since the telephone directory is circulated to all government offices throughout the country one must assume that by now the Russians have managed to see a copy . |