Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 2 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 3 | Motioning for Seb to come to her , she stood in the doorway and in a low voice , said , ‘ There 's someone downstairs to see Anna . |
| 4 | And I used to get in when I was a young boy and see them when I started working on a farm I always to see them . |
| 5 | Now when you 're often they phone up and say , There 's someone here to see you . |
| 6 | It 's always easier for someone else to see where you 've missed the point . |
| 7 | If something needed doing Eva Burrows did n't look around for someone else to see to it . |
| 8 | I want us to thrash them just to see him shut his fat mouth — and then whinge about unfair treatment blah blah blah . |
| 9 | Love to see them just to see what it 's like , okay . |
| 10 | ‘ I think there 's somebody here to see you , Catriona , ’ said one of the boys . |
| 11 | He did n't want to take his eyes from it — equally he wanted somebody else to see it . |
| 12 | ‘ Madam , it grieves me deeply to see the straits to which your bereavement has brought you , ’ observed the chancellor after a formal obeisance . |
| 13 | ‘ I would love , ’ he said , ‘ to go along with you just to see this horse do the work . ’ |
| 14 | Veronica came up did n't she yesterday to see where her er has Sally got her stuff please . |
| 15 | There was a sense of the primeval about the place , and it would not have surprised me unduly to see a pterodactyl alight clumsily , or a dinosaur emerge from behind the rocks . |
| 16 | You can measure them later to see if there has been a change . |
| 17 | It 's worth having one just to see the expression on your enemy 's face as the Giant jumps up and down on his cherished troops . |
| 18 | He disregarded the cigarette-packs , after having checked inside each one carefully to see if a note had been left . |
| 19 | How , then , are we now to see the Webbs ' appraisal of Owen ? |
| 20 | Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see . |
| 21 | There was no doubt he crashed into the sea as I watched him hit , but I did not get a confirmation of this as there was no one else to see it and R.D.F. did n't seem to have much coverage up that way . ’ |
| 22 | Was there enough to see her way ? |
| 23 | They are nobody else 's and no-one else will see them , if you do n't want anybody else to see them . |
| 24 | One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all . |
| 25 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 26 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We are hoping to hear from him soon to see if there is money available to support us . |
| 28 | Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense . |
| 29 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 30 | Christina knew it was none of her business — Martin was a free agent — but it disturbed her somehow to see him being so hotly pursued by a determined young woman . |