Example sentences of "see [det] [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employees who are already earning good money will see little point in spending their vouchers . |
| 2 | You can see this type of learning in yourself . |
| 3 | Well do you see this vote against opting out as a basically a vote in favour of the tertiary college plans for Banbury ? |
| 4 | Everyone was in a hurry as they squeezed by ; no-one seemed to notice her , and she did n't see much chance of getting their attention right now . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't see much point in trying to alter such a bigoted outlook . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't see much point in pretending . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't see much point in pretending , as I 've already said . |
| 8 | We ca n't see much point in avoiding emphysema at sixty-five |
| 9 | I could n't see much point in viewing this perfectly healthy animal again but I promised to call . |
| 10 | As far as the rift with the Musicians Union is concerned if they are so shortsighted as to condemn and ban everything that has the tag ‘ South African ’ , without even trying to understand , I do n't see much point in having anything to do with them . |
| 11 | He does n't see any way of doing that as long as you and Mrs C. remain here . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't see any sense in subjecting him to a hard race in the Gold Cup when I know that his blood has been wrong , ’ he explained . |
| 13 | Now I ca n't see any sense in throwing whatsit , the javelin . |
| 14 | No , I do n't see any purpose in reporting this . |
| 15 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't see any advantage in staying small , ’ managing director Ian Lockwood says . |
| 17 | ‘ I can not see any logic in taking a bowler like Paul Jarvis . |
| 18 | I had no strength to push off , so I did n't see any point of playing . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Frankly I do n't see any point in staying till morning and subjecting myself to yet another evening of arguments . ’ |
| 20 | Well you know really I ca n't , I ca n't see any point in staying around here myself , yeah , it 's just my mum really , if anything happened to her then I 'll move you know I 'd move from Newcastle , Stoke On Trent area |
| 21 | I do n't see any point in repeating or emphasising to the point of boring you . |
| 22 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 23 | I suddenly decided I did n't see any point in submitting them , I said . |
| 24 | ‘ We did n't see any point in hanging around . |
| 25 | ‘ We did n't see any point in hanging around . |
| 26 | Cos that was last week 's mid morning show trail and I do n't I do n't see any point in playing what 's happening next week . |
| 27 | I tidy and vacuum the sitting room after she 's gone to bed — I do n't see any point in doing it in the morning because it 'll only get messed up again . |
| 28 | the labour because erm I ca n't see any point in doing half a job . |
| 29 | I do n't see any point in adding complications to life . |
| 30 | I do n't see any point in having a formal dining room with a table stuck in the middle . |