Example sentences of "[adv] see what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they can only see what 's straight ahead of them . |
| 2 | They can only see what 's under their noses . |
| 3 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 4 | The Purchaser can only see what the Vendor makes available : it may not disclose everything . |
| 5 | ‘ There was a postwar cult ’ , wrote Mrs Le Mesurier in 1931 , ‘ which took it for granted that as the devil has all the good tunes , so youth had all the good qualities ’ , and faced with the giddy enthusiasm of people such as S. F. Hatton , Basil Henriques , James Butterworth , Herbert Casson , H. S. Bryan and Robert Baden-Powell we can perhaps see what she was driving at . |
| 6 | She had better see what is in store for her . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd better see what I looked like . |
| 8 | You and I , Charlie — we 'd better see what there is to be said and what there is to know . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , I suppose I 'd better see what translation the TARDIS computer can offer of these papers . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Better see what she wants , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Yeah , better see what 's happening , anyway I 've sat long enough |
| 12 | We can easily see what Irenaeus was exploring . |
| 13 | Being at eye-level , you can easily see what 's cooking and the burner lights instantly with the touch of the ignition button . |
| 14 | Erm , but but , you can easily see what the rule is , ca n't you , I mean , it 's enough , it 's enough to be able to recognise that there is a pattern to that usage . |
| 15 | Personally I can not see what all the fuss has been about . ’ |
| 16 | Its force among people lay in the missionary areas and the young Churches where Indians or Africans could not see what European divisions had to do with them . |
| 17 | The recognition of parents who intentionally harmed their children could not be easily accommodated within the understanding of what these services were there to do : the scandals and the subsequent enquiries revealed time and again that social workers could not see what to lay people was painfully obvious , and what lawyers and other professionals ( with the benefit of hindsight ) constructed to be their duty to recognize . |
| 18 | The Great Spirit … seemed to be looking some other way , and did not see what was being done to my people . |
| 19 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 20 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 21 | There was movement to the side of them , but I could not see what they were doing because of the size of the boulders . |
| 22 | But I can not see what I would do with a home computer , one of which I am continually being urged to buy by manufacturers and retailers and by drops in prices of the things that are as near as a toucher opening up my cheque book . |
| 23 | But with the foreign exchange shortages in many developing countries , I do not see what alternative there is in the long term . |
| 24 | I prepared myself for the baton change as Mac set off on his leg , so I did not see what happened there . |
| 25 | Stuck in Dovercourt with little prospect of continuing their education or of fulfilling their parents ' ambitions , they did not see what they had to be grateful for . |
| 26 | I could not see what was happening as I was falling upsidedown and my legs obscured all view of the aircraft above me . |
| 27 | I can not see what 's wrong with it . |
| 28 | She told me , just as did you a moment ago , about being put to bed and the sprinkling of holy water — but I could still not see what all the fuss was about ! |
| 29 | In the darkness he could not see what went on further down the line , but obviously the same problems would prevail there . |
| 30 | While he does n't support competition climbing , he can not see what right he has to offer an opinion on the subject , especially when he considers the commercialism of some Himalayan mountaineers . |