Example sentences of "[adv] see to " in BNC.

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1 I shall personally see to it that you are put away in a place where not even the crows can land their droppings on you !
2 It may not be rat-infested , but any good entrepreneur could swiftly see to that .
3 So you 'd better see to it that Luke and Sonny do n't go often to the village .
4 ‘ Well — ’ She went to the fire and ground the kettle on top of the glowing tins , then added , ‘ As you 're takin' over , you 'd better see to it . ’
5 If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’
6 I think you 'd better see to it .
7 ‘ Had n't you better see to him ? ’
8 Well you better see to it then .
9 The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name .
10 ‘ Th 'd best see to the port then , instead of blowing about under my feet , ’ Salt snapped .
11 For , of course , you could not see to the foot of the hill , let alone seven counties , under the stars .
12 The worldly-wise orchestrator will rather see to it that there is not an important clarinet part in the aforesaid section .
13 Cocello would effectively see to that , whatever Chairman Tom O'Reilly might think .
14 ‘ We can no more see to the bottom of the next few hours , than we can see to the bottom of this river what I catches hold of .
15 ‘ But his girl friend will probably see to him all right .
16 I felt what I can now see to be an unreasonable surge of panic .
17 MY compliments to the recent local government election candidates , successful or otherwise , and will they now see to it that their earnest phizzogs are removed forthwith from all neighbourhood telegraph poles , lamp standards and walls .
18 She could n't see to the bottom of the scree slope .
19 ‘ Just the branches … ca n't see to the end of the tunnel in either direction .
20 Erm number one strength Alan erm although he does n't see to eye T eye eye to eye with er a lot of the city institutions and a lot of the shareholders erm he he does know his business erm and he has quite a strong character , very forceful and .
21 I ca n't see to everything myself ’
22 What Adam does n't see to falls to me .
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