Example sentences of "n't [verb] see [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | There are certain looks on certain faces I do n't want to see again , and this was one of them . |
2 | One of the cupboard doors had creaked open and he did n't want to see inside . |
3 | Lucker falls asleep after commenting that he does n't want to see how mini-cab drivers supplement their incomes . |
4 | We do n't want to see how you speak ! |
5 | nineteen eighty five and we can see the picture of it , or a drawing of it on page seventy , I have n't looked to see how many apartments there is |
6 | You know that you would n't expect to see there normally , I mean the one I 'm always on about is when everybody says you know that , that the thing is the thing is bad you know and when you say it 's that , it 's actually good . |
7 | He looked so very tired still , with shadowed unshaven cheeks , and there were deep lines running from nose to mouth that Kate did n't remember seeing before . |
8 | " I do n't like seeing so far , " she said once . |
9 | ‘ Do n't like to see little 'uns ill . ’ |
10 | Oh , I do n't like to see just . |
11 | The trouble was that he could n't begin to see how much she had changed . |
12 | And I do n't see see why |
13 | I kind of wished I 'd sat behind Verity ; I would n't have seen so much of her — not even a hint of that slim , smooth face , frowning in concentration as she barrelled the big black Beemer towards the next corner — but I would n't have been able to see the speedometer , either . |
14 | That 's why the windows of the houses are so small — so that they do n't have to see where they 've been working all day long . |
15 | For her own sake it was a side she could n't afford to see too often . |
16 | It 's wrong that a man ca n't get to see around his own country . |
17 | She 'd seen scorn , and worse still pity , in too many faces already — she could n't bear to see either repeated in Kelly 's emerald-green eyes . |
18 | It was quite a busy week , going to the concerts and the theatre and visiting friends again , as well as seeing some we had n't managed to see earlier , such as Maria and Mike who 'd just had their second baby , and Robert ( Easting ) and Christine who had also just had a baby . |