Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to see " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 2 | A foolish general might surround his Pump Wagon with friendly units only to see the machine crunch through his own lines in the first turn ! |
| 3 | He opened one locker only to see its contents cascade out , repeatedly bashing the head of the man sitting under it like a scene from a Laurel and Hardy film . |
| 4 | The rest of us put our heads together to see if we could n't all manage to get to it at Staines in Middlesex . |
| 5 | ’ I am going to take you to the pictures tonight to see The Gold Rush . ’ |
| 6 | Some market research just to see how many times you swear at me . |
| 7 | ‘ I bought the local paper at Bath Station and the Evening Standard at Paddington just to see how many of my team-mates had been named , but there was no mention of the squad , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Mr Major and Mr Kinnock have said they will attend the summit , and Downing Street officials were consulting the history books yesterday to see whether there are any precedents for the Prime Minister to be absent from the traditional spot on a stand in Horseguards Parade with foreign dignitaries . |
| 9 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 10 | So next time you buy snacks like these , check the labels carefully to see if they 're loaded with fat . |
| 11 | This means that we must examine the data carefully to see whether there is any difference in meaning between the uses with and without to , and then seek an explanation for the curious appearance of to with this sense of know . |
| 12 | Former Environment Secretary Nicholas Ridley went back to his old department today to see what could be done to help crisis-hit Gloucestershire County Council . |
| 13 | Will he dissociate himself from that comment and will he take action today to see that the hon. Gentleman concerned is ’ liberated ’ from his ministerial duties ? |
| 14 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 15 | I 'll ask Sonja tomorrow to see if there 's a letter for me . |
| 16 | ‘ We are not sure if the scripts she 's been sent are suitable for her , but we are going to beat the undergrowth there to see if anything comes flying out . ’ |
| 17 | Second , a related point , Thessalian cavalry was the best in Greece : Xerxes had heard this ( Hdt. vii.196 ) and held a gymkhana there to see for himself ( actually the Thessalian horses were defeated by Xerxes ' own ) . |
| 18 | for young people and if one of the things that corporations to my mind have a positive duty to do which is the social responsibility and we live in a society so increasingly fractured , rudderless and you know not so far away in places from anarchy that they have a duty to do things which effect maybe to see one the Bs not the A ones the Bs |
| 19 | ‘ It was a great pleasure indeed to see such a splendid game . ’ |
| 20 | Jimmy Warren , who was apparently the only witness actually to see him fall , said he also had n't noticed anything untoward about Len that morning . ’ |
| 21 | The starts of Flatliners ( 15 ) — including off-screen lovers Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland — find a way to die for a few minutes just to see what life is like ‘ on the other side ’ . |
| 22 | Go and look at paintings in art galleries just to see what effect the artist is trying to achieve . |
| 23 | Angel explained that she would be staying at her mother 's while he went to Brazil alone to see if the country was suitable . |
| 24 | A woman would quite likely have ten or twelve children , several miscarriages and still-births only to see about half her children die from common childhood ailments . |
| 25 | She took one last glance at the window above to see Maria Luisa with her palms flat against the window-pane , desperately , mutely pleading with Ruth for help with eyes so full of pain that Ruth 's nerves nearly snapped . |
| 26 | At first , no doubt , it was in the nature of an exercise just to see if he could still write : he was working very closely to the structure of " Burnt Norton " and seemed to be using the earlier poem as a model from which to draw inspiration . |
| 27 | Or what we could do , well , what I mean is , maybe would n't do any harm going down to the pub tonight to see if the others are there , only a quick drink mind , we ca n't be sure what they 're like yet — ’ |
| 28 | The Press Complaints Commission is now in operation , and we will monitor its work carefully to see if self-regulation succeeds . |
| 29 | The words drawled out sleepily but there was enough light from the window now to see that his eyes were open , watching me . |
| 30 | ‘ Mr. Preston , there is a lady here to see you . ’ |