Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 31 | She drank down the remains of the mug of beer and off we went again to see the Captain . |
| 32 | We went through to see a couple of remarkable rock formations , the Trident and the Judge — no prizes for guessing where they got their names . |
| 33 | ‘ We went outside to see if we could help . |
| 34 | We went in to see Jennie before we left . |
| 35 | For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body . |
| 36 | when we down to London last week , we went in to see a friend of ours , she works in the sandwich bar |
| 37 | We went down to see my Gran . |
| 38 | We went down to see the |
| 39 | One afternoon we went together to see an Italian filmed opera in a small cinema off Grafton Street which specialised in foreign films . |
| 40 | Then , after the party we went along to see Man at The Lyceum . |
| 41 | We looked up to see the safety diver frantically untangling himself from suddenly treacherous lines before being bumped by this moving mountain . |
| 42 | We looked up to see an old man in a flapping gallibaya pointing to the eastern shore . |
| 43 | We looked up to see the tree limbs rippling with leather and fur . |
| 44 | Suddenly there was this tremendous roar , and we looked up to see a mass of snow and rocks rolling down a gully . |
| 45 | We looked down to see goldfinches and snow buntings feasting on fallen seeds in the heaped litter of salt marsh plants : sea lavender and sea purslane . |
| 46 | Eventually it became too much , and one afternoon we looked down to see the bowwab moving out . |
| 47 | We did n't see a lot of Father that year because he was in the Government . |
| 48 | We did n't see a single soldier or vehicle and assumed that the US army was blocking off La Boca from the Panama Defence Force , whose local headquarters is only about 300 yards from our house . |
| 49 | ‘ She insisted we did n't see the show before the first night , ’ explained Waterman . |
| 50 | But we did n't see any of that ; we did n't notice that , as O later put it , his eyes were n't just dark that night but almost blinded , blinded with grief . |
| 51 | We did n't see the ball go in because we were on the 9th tee , but we heard hell of a din behind and Tom said , ‘ Some guy must have holed out . ’ |
| 52 | We did n't see anything . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ We did n't see anything at all . ’ |
| 54 | No , we did n't see it , but we were on the scene soon afterwards . |
| 55 | Christie , who has already signed money-spinning deals with Lucozade and clothing firm High and Mighty since Barcelona , said : ‘ We did n't see why we should pay for a visa when we were prepared to take part in races for nothing . |
| 56 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 57 | ‘ I 'm sure we did n't see her again though . |
| 58 | Perhaps they are pests to a lot of people , but we did n't see too many flies around our estate during the hot summer , so they had their uses . |
| 59 | Rattlesnakes are supposed to be common , though they are generally shy and silent and we did n't see any trace of them . |
| 60 | We did n't see the Seychelles scops owl , which is nocturnal and usually only seen if a tape-recording is played at night , nor did we get the little Seychelles white-eye , but I am not concerned . |