Example sentences of "[vb past] to see [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we asked to see test results so we could recommend the products with some confidence we were told that the data was confidential , between Colin Isaacs and Loblaws . ’ |
| 2 | Looking down she expected to see blood , awfulness , something dead . |
| 3 | In illus.1 a sophisticated Paris readership expected to see reality heightened , not burlesqued . |
| 4 | He had taken it , now , that she was not going ; she expected to see resentment blossom , but he did not resent it . |
| 5 | Joanna , he was told , by a rather uppity landlord who rejoiced to see privilege spiked , was out in the fields . |
| 6 | In order to bypass this traditional way of seeing society , Marx turned away from administrative and political organization and tried to see society in different , more fundamental terms . |
| 7 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 8 | The sun was beginning to set when Hazel woke to see Acorn listening and sniffing in the silence , between two white-skinned flints . |
| 9 | I went oftener to Uncle Geordie 's by that time and sometimes I missed Uncle Bill if he came to see Dad and Ma on a Saturday night . |
| 10 | More and more people came to see TV as their prime source of news . |
| 11 | Increasingly , Mosley came to see unemployment and economic policy were the key issues in British politics . |
| 12 | It was there on Tuesday , it was there on Monday when Lou Stacey came to see Angy … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You remember the two men who came to see Daddy at the old house , do n't you ? ’ said Mother . |
| 14 | We thought about celebrating it early but Kelly seemed to see Christmas Day as something to work towards . |
| 15 | Tracks like ‘ Buffalo Soldier ’ , ‘ Trench Town ’ and ‘ Rastaman Live Up ’ deserved to see release , although once again other versions of the tracks remain in the can , like the cut of ‘ Stiff Necked Fools ’ that marked current reggae rulers Steely & Clevie 's recording debut together . |
| 16 | He was interrupted by a polite cough that came from the doorway , and they turned to see Ling , who had arrived in time to hear Silas 's last words . |
| 17 | Presently , he heard the foliage rustling behind him , and turned to see Walterkin coming over the edge of the roof . |
| 18 | He turned to see Nurse Lambert smiling at the door . |
| 19 | The voice startled her out of her reverie and she turned to see Candy in the doorway , her pert features anxious . |
| 20 | Rico threw her off , and she turned to see Mamma d'Agostino standing in the doorway . |
| 21 | He was almost there when he heard the sound of running feet behind him , and turned to see Merymose coming towards him . |
| 22 | ‘ But you try , ’ said a well-modulated voice , and she turned to see Vitor coming along the Persian carpeted hall . |
| 23 | Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes . |
| 24 | This insight was ignored until the new generation of experimentalists began to see heredity as a process transmitting characters through the line of reproductive cells , independently of the adult body . |
| 25 | The West began to see aid to Eastern Europe as more important than aid to the Third World — ‘ charity begins at home ’ . |
| 26 | But it was n't until 1984 and a Manpower Services project that the Teifi dream began to see reality , with the old station site at Henllan midway between the original Llandsyl Newcastle Emlyn alignment chosen as headquarters . |
| 27 | As Britain concentrated more on integrating the United States into a western defensive system , France began to see integration as a way of increasing its own influence within Europe , especially over the future of Germany . |
| 28 | And that , I 'm changing that way , but , if our kids have to be home with the , a group , when I went to see Squeeze . |
| 29 | I arrived at the Ministry of Culture and went to see Khalturin . |
| 30 | Finally we give in and rent the movie we ignored a few months ago when we went to see Midnight Run . |