Example sentences of "[verb] see them " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a country of 17 million people , around one million actually travelled to see them as they journeyed from city to city . |
| 2 | He had not seen her all day and badly wanted to say goodbye , but there was no sign of her in the crowd that had gathered to see them off . |
| 3 | ‘ I hate to see them do that , but it is better than the children being trampled underfoot in the rush . |
| 4 | ‘ I love animals and hate to see them killed , ’ said Clara McKay , 81 . |
| 5 | Also , I love animals and hate to see them suffer . |
| 6 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 7 | I hope people will want to see them . |
| 8 | ‘ I … er … but why do you want to see them ? ’ he asked plaintively . |
| 9 | He 'd want to see them . |
| 10 | The banks are businesses too and we do not want to see them closed down . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We do n't really want to see them being killed do we ? ’ |
| 12 | You may not dislike the person ( or alternatively , you may ) but you do n't want to see them then , at all . |
| 13 | I knew you would want to see them , Captain — Mr Andropulos seems very anxious to see you — and I know you do n't like unauthorized people on the bridge so I took the liberty of putting the four gentlemen and the two young ladies in the wardroom . |
| 14 | He did not want to see them simply crushed , not only because he respected their opinion , but because he would have to go on working with them after the Council . |
| 15 | Do you want to see them ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't want to see them . ’ |
| 17 | She did want to see them ; her rivals . |
| 18 | There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’ |
| 19 | It was n't purely coincidental that she happened to be carrying the details of previous work experience , for she 'd expected that the secretarial agency might want to see them . |
| 20 | ‘ But you did n't want to see them . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Impressionable teenagers use the Arts Centre all the time and I do n't want to see them confronted by this sort of filth . |
| 22 | Do you want to see them ? |
| 23 | I do n't want to see them tonight |
| 24 | it 's like the , cos I keep saying if you must do those F's you do it at school I said , but do not do them for me , I said if you do I do not want to see them , but again you 've got a conflict there between home and school |
| 25 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 27 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 28 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 29 | I suppose it 's probably because his time at Leeds coincided with the time when I used to go to see them most frequently . |
| 30 | I personally prefer to go to see them , at least the people that I like to see . |