Example sentences of "see [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't you see that they might find it worthwhile to bend the truth and sit on justice when there 's so much at stake ? ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't see that they can afford to be a high profile company ? |
| 3 | But until we do I ca n't see that we can pass something which refers to something we know nothing about . |
| 4 | But , I think if we have further discussions with churches and districts that we might see that we can break that a bit further for that reason when we come to er , come to the resolutions I would advise you er er propose a minor amendment with the second thing . |
| 5 | Thus , we can see that we can distinguish three main classes in contemporary capitalist society . |
| 6 | " You 've done all right so far , Ian , and I do n't see that we could do any better . |
| 7 | Already ahead of him he could see that he would marry , and it might be disastrously , he had that in him , but at the moment what he had was Rose Hilaire and Gabriel and it was 1966 . |
| 8 | She could see that he would lose his temper if she pressed him any further , and so she left it . |
| 9 | Even I can see that he should have been implacable . ’ |
| 10 | then you can see that you 'll start earning substantially more . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't see that you can do anything . |
| 12 | now you can see that you can read those messages about the hands went did n't they ? |
| 13 | ‘ I can see that you 'd feel that way , ’ she said softly . |
| 14 | ‘ In all truth , I ca n't see that you 'd steal from me , ’ he muttered cautiously , smiling deeper when the other man visibly relaxed . |
| 15 | and that it was er er obviously going to be a cost-effective exercise to do it there and then , and er you both er canvassed as many councillors as you could at the time , all the committee Chairmen were , were involved , I do n't see that you could have done any more in the circumstances . |
| 16 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |
| 17 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 18 | and the a the idea of of erm the butch woman in dungarees , as being the feminist , erm and the women that burnt her bra or whatever was a feminist of the seventies , but it does n't mean to say that the ideas are n't still there , and I still want to be treated as an equal , but I do , I do n't see that I should change the way that I dress or the way that that I want to act |
| 19 | And how it fits into your life , I have the feeling that er if I could fix it so that I could do it sort of in the house , by the way , I could , I could do certain things and I could stick to them , and I would see that I 'd do them . |
| 20 | I can see that I will have to get away from this stinking city with its endless acres of asphalted rumour , its tenements of whores and pimps , its traffic in misery and its festering suburbs of ding-dong doorbelled malice . |
| 21 | I do n't see that I can do very much , but there may be some questions that , in the circumstances , the police have not thought it necessary to ask . |
| 22 | Now they shall see that I can do extremes and by God they shall learn to keep their hands from Gwynedd while I am yet alive . ’ |
| 23 | No need to stiffen up like that — you must see that it would affect me professionally . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I can not see that it would do much good . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't see that it would do any harm , ’ said the Direktor glumly . |
| 26 | I must , however , confess , that , if that were so , I do not see that it would make any substantial difference . |
| 27 | But it , I can quite see that it would bother some people . |
| 28 | But , while he is of Le Patron Mange Ici school ( which always used to be the sign of a good restaurant ) , I ca n't see that it would have been particularly good for business here . |
| 29 | ‘ I can see that it would help to run the Corporation more efficiently , ’ she said , ‘ although I 'm sure there are artificial intelligences that would be as powerful . |
| 30 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |