Example sentences of "and see [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to see things through to the finish — and to see them through successfully . ’ |
| 2 | And the sobbing began again , and to see her so defeated — remembering how gallant she had always been , even in the alley when she had attacked her assailant with her shoe — overwhelmed him . |
| 3 | I felt incredibly well , but he said to keep an eye on the swollen gland and to see him immediately if it grew in size . |
| 4 | But not so ( we are told ) : Conservative advocates of tariffs and social reforms like old age pensions , wages councils , regulation of sweated trades were , Fforde argues , simply engaged in ‘ principled opportunism ’ ; this was ‘ not Collectivist Conservatism but expedient Conservatism ’ , and to see it as otherwise would be to allow oneself to be ‘ misled by manufactured appearances ' or what Fforde describes elsewhere as the gap between ‘ professed stance and true intention ’ . |
| 5 | Certainly he seems to define active life in terms of outward works and to see it as inferior to the inward experience of contemplation : Some people are doubtful as to which life is the more meritorious and excellent , the contemplative or the active . |
| 6 | Charles rose and after a few mumbled words about thanks , and keeping in touch , and being cheerful , and seeing himself out , he left . |
| 7 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 8 | Pandarus , who had instructed Troilus — ‘ You must be witty ’ — seems to have infected the lovers with his fondness for dirty jokes ( in him , perhaps , a sign of impotence or disease ) , and seeing him again they are reminded of this and go up to verse for their protestations of love and fidelity ( 113ff . ) . |
| 9 | One of the photographers was Monty Fresco of the Daily Mirror , and seeing him there increased my anger threefold . |
| 10 | That is , whereas Lok is freed from quasi-metaphorical thought patterns and learns to use comparison , separating concepts and seeing them independently , the reader is shown the comparison first , then , with the deletion of like the peoples ' view is represented . |
| 11 | The analysis also confirms the strong record of the course in retaining students and seeing them through to their final qualifications . |
| 12 | It is in weighing these up one against another — in balancing them and seeing them altogether cumulatively — that these criteria may become effective . |
| 13 | It 's like er er but now I 've heard her telling this lie again , I mean , oh , I 'm thinking of going and seeing her again . |
| 14 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 15 | He had kissed her goodbye and seen her on to her flight . |
| 16 | If he 'd decided to look in , and seen her fully dressed , the game would have been up . |
| 17 | Someone , somewhere must have been concerned for and worried about these unfortunate children and found their absence odd ; surely too , someone must have paid their fare and seen them off on their journey . |
| 18 | One has seen people from the shop floor sent to help start up plants overseas , and seen them rapidly take responsibilities far beyond those which they had been given in their home organization . |
| 19 | Whether it was during a healing , or during one of those morning meditations , I ca n't remember , but I had to assure Christopher that although I had stayed to every meditation and seen it through to the end , and although he had brought God , and probably Jesus Christ in upon several occasions , my original It was as intact as it had ever been . |
| 20 | He replied , apparently to the students ' dissatisfaction , that he had himself encountered nothing of the kind and indeed that many of those who had started off the war with him and seen it through to the end had become major military commanders . |
| 21 | One Saturday , late in June , in the last year of the war , Ackroyd had passed the 5.13 through as usual and received the 5.29 from Chorley and seen it in . |
| 22 | Perhaps the problem has been that the Americans have adopted Pop Art as a national institution and seen it as exclusively an American product , so I found the inclusion of the German painters , Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter , illuminating . |
| 23 | I thought , well I better go and see her else she 'll be playing around with me . |
| 24 | Will you come and see her soon ? |
| 25 | Well then , cos he was doing executor for poor old soul poor old and er Ivy used to go and see her pretty frequently , she said do come and see me Mrs ? |
| 26 | We must go and see her tomorrow . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm gon na go and see her on she does n't know , but I 'll call in and see her on Thursday . |
| 28 | So I do n't know whether you want to go and see her rather than , I could get a doctor to go and see her and phone , . |
| 29 | I promised to go and see her again on Friday morning . |
| 30 | ‘ OK — we 'll go and see her again . ’ |