Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tend nowadays to see these generations not merely in terms of the underlying electronic technology , but also in terms of the organization of the hardware and software involved in a computer system ; thus the transition to the fourth generation can be seen more as a change in the way that computer systems are organized ( with the use of such techniques as virtual storage and distributed intelligence ) , than as a change in the underlying technology . |
| 2 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 3 | Perhaps we tend not to see this year 's household survey as an historical datum because it is the human condition to flatter ourselves that our own lives are outside time , and therefore outside history . |
| 4 | We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces . |
| 5 | Not that we came just to see you . |
| 6 | When we came up to see it well it was a brand spanking new |
| 7 | We came over to see you in the Glory . |
| 8 | We came out to see them putting the body in a bag . |
| 9 | ‘ We were staying in a hotel in Maidstone and we went back for a meal , then later , about tennish , we sneaked back to see if there was anything going down . |
| 10 | ‘ Aye , and not before time , we 'd best see right round the place . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , we fought we 'd better see if 'e 'd pinched anyfing , ’ said Linda . |
| 12 | You and I , Charlie — we 'd better see what there is to be said and what there is to know . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems to me , ’ he announced , ‘ we 'd better see all these pupils together . |
| 14 | ‘ And now , I think we 'd better see about keeping a special watch on the road . |
| 15 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 16 | It was quite amazing really because we 'd never seen any of these things before . |
| 17 | It could have come from what happened with us , even if we 'd never seen each other again ! " |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd never seen her before , ’ said Masha , ‘ not till we got into the car . ’ |
| 19 | We 'd only seen these in tanks before , and the initial reaction was that they were OK , but … |
| 20 | Hitherto we 'd only seen their faces and spoken with our hands . |
| 21 | Yes , yeah , when you had one delivered , that 's the first time we 'd ever seen one was n't it ? |
| 22 | Our ideas coalesced with those of Ray Cusick in the production of the Dalek itself once we 'd all seen the scripts . |
| 23 | So We managed and we opened up see how quick they came . |
| 24 | We give up seeing ourselves as ‘ the dream child ’ , ‘ the shadow child ’ , ‘ the rejected child ’ , or any of the other wounded images that affect our relationships with others . |
| 25 | I can remember Rachel looking at me with scorn and saying , Mummy , you must be mad , in this heat ! '' However , if was one of our own small fighter planes , and we rushed across to see it land . |
| 26 | Cos if we get there see car . |
| 27 | What I 'll do is I 'll try another straw poll at the end of the seven lectures and see how we feel then to see if we 've erm we 've shifted , so I think there it was about , I 'm guessing , sixty five thirty five in favour of Maastricht . |
| 28 | ‘ Shall we go out to see a film tonight , Frankie ? |
| 29 | so Lisa said can we go in to see her |
| 30 | When we go out to see her she 's pining . |