Example sentences of "see it [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
| 2 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 3 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 4 | He 's been head teacher here for seven years and has seen it get some of the best exam results in the country . |
| 5 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 6 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 7 | Now have you seen it like that ? |
| 8 | I have never seen it like that . |
| 9 | never ever seen it like this |
| 10 | Few saw it like that at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not sure Peter saw it like that . ’ |
| 12 | Hari half lifted half pushed him through the window and then she waited breathlessly for any sounds that would indicate that Will had been discovered , but when there was nothing , she moved to the door and to her relief , she saw it swing open . |
| 13 | The FTSE Index was 18 points up at 10pm but this was later halved before a later rally saw it close 12.1 points up at 2363.5 . |
| 14 | An organisation once the size of a Station now resided in one small corner of the airfield at Wyton but it maintained the excellent tradition that saw it produce many thousands of aircrew . |
| 15 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |
| 16 | We would like to see it encompass these and other elements so as to allow every farmer in Wales an opportunity to volunteer a package of agri-environmental commitments drawn from a broad menu of approved activities , as the basis for a negotiated , long term , grant-aid agreement . ’ |
| 17 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 18 | I needed my own fairy-tale — my own legend — and to see it come true . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think they see it like that , exactly , ’ said Masklin . |
| 20 | Fromentin and Gerome see the soil of the South as colourless , and a lot of people see it like that . |
| 21 | But when you see it like that you do n't just distort the world , you distort yourself . |
| 22 | ‘ I see it like that because it is like that . ’ |
| 23 | Feminist psychologists sometimes see it like this . |
| 24 | I see it like this . |