Example sentences of "[vb past] to see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Falklands War in 1982 — conventional warfare such as no one expected to see again — there surfaced memories that had never been buried very deep . |
| 2 | It was the sort of set Haute Epoque specialist dealers said they never expected to see again in their lifetimes . |
| 3 | Zelah seemed to know everybody and the Wycliffes were introduced to a bewildering variety of people whom they never expected to see again . |
| 4 | And erm , we hardly got to see as much of each other , because we were like , in this group of ten people , and then , and so like one time we skied off piste , and we just had this massive snowball fight off piste , it was like really funny . |
| 5 | One of them came to see Right Said Fred in Los Angeles and there was lighthearted talk of a collaboration . |
| 6 | And I had a test , and the old Colonel and Colchester came to see now and how you 're getting on , he was , just about retiring he wanted a different desk in his office . |
| 7 | Zen seemed to see again that glare of hostility and hear the Questore murmur , ‘ Until today he was handling the Miletti case for us . ’ |
| 8 | Zen seemed to see again that glare of hostility and see the Questore murmur . |
| 9 | Then Julius glanced up at her , and for just an instant Jessamy seemed to see right through the protective shield with which he had surrounded himself . |
| 10 | For just an instant she seemed to see right into his eyes , past the protective barrier that he instinctively put up against intruders . |
| 11 | With a helpless sigh she stared into deep grey eyes that seemed to see too much . |
| 12 | Anna 's blue eyes seemed to see too much , and Merrill had already had enough of that discomfiting shrewdness from Luke . |
| 13 | Walking through the lobby of Hotel Vancouver one day I happened to see Shelly talking to a smart looking young lady and when I joined them he introduced his assistant , Hellen Semmens . |
| 14 | However , Jones claimed to see only neutrons , and a few of those only at levels that might be interesting to science and geophysicists but of no relevance to making commercial fusion reactors . ’ |
| 15 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 16 | Antoine 's brown eyes lost that blind unfocused look ; she noticed a faint smile wander over his face as he began to see more clearly . |
| 17 | The frost on his windscreen was merely dampness still and after four or five sweeps of the wiper-blades he began to see more clearly . |
| 18 | Aghast , incredulous , she craned to see more clearly if this was indeed her own mad forebear toying there inside her thought ; and he turned to leer at her . |
| 19 | And , as soon as I realised that , as soon as I thought about his breakdown , I started to worry , I started to see just how unstable he still was . |
| 20 | I went to see where , she puts lollipop in school like and I went to see exactly she 's supposed to start at quarter to twelve so I went round there for quarter to twelve about five past twelve when she , it 's like yours . |
| 21 | Went to see Forever Young with Mel Gibson , the one where he 's frozen for fifty years and then he wakes up in |
| 22 | In Wagner himself , at all events , he continued to see only the image that Wagner wished to project : an " idealistic cast of mind " , an " incredible seriousness and German depth " in his view of life and art , an epitome of " our German mission " in every way . |
| 23 | My little son , that I never hoped to see again ! " |
| 24 | A face she longed to see again . |
| 25 | Leroy Burns he never wished to see again , and Paul Franklin with his bicycling and innumerable kids was a right ponce . |
| 26 | Lord Denning raised the obvious question as to whether the judges might misuse their power — power which he wished to see dramatically increased — but he argued that we " need have no fear … |
| 27 | Cleo wanted to see outside . |
| 28 | Now a huge one awaited him , liberals looking for expression , eager literati to put in sculpture , worn-out hippies , anyone who wanted to see right done for once . |
| 29 | I knew that the Falkland Islands were similar to Shetland in that both were a group of treeless islands in the middle of an ocean , and I wanted to see just how wild creatures — and birds in particular — had adapted as different species in what I imagined was a similar environment . |
| 30 | He wanted to see more ‘ young ladies ’ at matches because he thought they would ‘ raise the tone of supporters generally ’ . |