Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to see " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many instances , the first reaction of parents was to take the user along to see the family doctor . |
| 2 | I think for a day 's er work it 's worth assessing the three top people identified with the six outside people that I 've identified who are you know in the next division down to see how they compare . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |
| 6 | Some market research just to see how many times you swear at me . |
| 7 | The flickering patterns of the light made her face seem insubstantial ; like something you might glimpse in a dream but which , when you came closer or held a clear light up to see it better , would fade or change back to its true form . |
| 8 | Without so much as a glance back to see his reaction to such an abrupt departure , Isabel scurried to the postern , yanked it open , and fled . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | ‘ It was a great pleasure indeed to see such a splendid game . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | After a full day of sightseeing , it made it a pleasant change not to see the ground . |
| 18 | He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while . |
| 19 | One Labour councillor was sympathetic and brought his local ward committee down to see the tenants " to check it was n't political " . |
| 20 | It requires hard work not to see this . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Tony has a go and I mooch over to see how Nat is faring . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 25 | 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 — ’ |
| 26 | The Press Complaints Commission is now in operation , and we will monitor its work carefully to see if self-regulation succeeds . |
| 27 | The words drawled out sleepily but there was enough light from the window now to see that his eyes were open , watching me . |
| 28 | ‘ Mr. Preston , there is a lady here to see you . ’ |
| 29 | The high bourgeois architecture of the apartment blocks on the town side of the Boulevard tea Pyrénées is worth turning about to see . |
| 30 | I looked in the folder again to see if I 'd missed anything . |