Example sentences of "this [noun] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll have to ring this vet up see where your cards are . |
| 2 | So why was this condition not seen as giving prospects of profit and therefore providing adequate incentive to new investment which , in turn , would have strengthened the balance of payments and made sterling less of a handicap ? |
| 3 | If or when there is need to do so , we may represent assignment of equation by a double arrow and we have an example of this type already seen in ( 33 ) above . |
| 4 | But whatever lit it was not the moon , for this Stephen now saw slowly rising out of clusters of cloud on the rim of the moor , a reddish , mottled orb like the ghost of that sun . |
| 5 | This period also saw expansion of motor-car ownership which led to both the provision of more and better roads and other traffic-related expenditure . |
| 6 | This period also saw the introduction into every major European army of various forms of mobile and lightly-armed troops to supplement the slow-moving line regiments . |
| 7 | Loyalty sealed her lips , even with Liz and Esther , whom she at this period rarely saw . |
| 8 | This period therefore saw the culmination of tendencies already visible in previous generations which made the diplomatic services of Europe more technically efficient than ever before . |
| 9 | To this day just to see or hear the word ‘ hermaphrodite ’ is sufficient to make those luminous pictures shimmer before my eyes . |
| 10 | This decade also saw the start of organised inter-club sport activities with the first cricket matches between two deaf institutes taking place in 1882 . |
| 11 | This woman apparently saw Americans as wandering children , unable to break with a bloodstained , hopeless parent . |
| 12 | This week arguably saw the first real skirmishes of that impending struggle for succession : the sub-text of set-piece deliveries by Sir Geoffrey Howe , Kenneth Baker , Michael Heseltine et al . |
| 13 | She said that also now her cousin 's staying with them so Vernon was trying to take this cousin out to see the sort of surrounding district er |
| 14 | In fact , however , this approach also sees geography as important , though in a different way . |
| 15 | I will not pass this way again to see if it did him any good . |
| 16 | ‘ Silas , darling — I 've come all this way just to see you and to be with you . |
| 17 | You were not chosen for this trip just to see an old flame , were you ? ’ |
| 18 | This date also saw the departure from the Middle East of the old carrier ‘ Eagle ’ , which left via the Suez Canal , whilst the headquarters of Fliegerkorps X moved from Sicily to direct operations over the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean . |
| 19 | This tendency not to see beyond the individual and his or her legal specialism that has been used before , to the other service available in the firm , is an old-established one — ‘ although , ’ said , ‘ I had hoped we were starting to get past that ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ To that end , ’ Nicholson continued , ‘ a Home Office delegation will be visiting this prison tomorrow to see how it runs and to see how well you 're all cared for . ’ |
| 21 | I had all this time neither seen nor heard anything ; nevertheless , I was convinced that the tigress was watching me . |
| 22 | ‘ Dr. Briant , this mother never saw the father either ? ’ |