Example sentences of "[verb] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year Mrs Curdle asked to see how the previous year 's bouquet had worn , so that the doctor and his wife were in honour bound not to destroy these offerings . |
| 2 | My task I intend to see through , |
| 3 | Only Drs Armitage and Darnell knew Dominic Wetherby before this weekend , with the possible addition of professor St John Goth , whom I intend to see tonight , despite your objections . |
| 4 | You need only to look at commercial copy or displays to see how powerfully a type-face complements the message it is conveying . |
| 5 | ‘ Barry , excuse me for asking this , but why would n't I want to see where I was going ? ’ |
| 6 | There are certain looks on certain faces I do n't want to see again , and this was one of them . |
| 7 | So you can be sure he 'll want to see out his time here , if only to prove a point to his doctor . ’ |
| 8 | Not do you want to see then ? |
| 9 | He 'll want to see how important it is , make sure Cropper has n't been there … ’ |
| 10 | Lucker falls asleep after commenting that he does n't want to see how mini-cab drivers supplement their incomes . |
| 11 | But you did want to see how little Cara 's leg is healing , did n't you ? |
| 12 | Right , do you want to see how it 's really done , let me show you , watch , are you watch Tim , then you can try , watch |
| 13 | We do n't want to see how you speak ! |
| 14 | One of the cupboard doors had creaked open and he did n't want to see inside . |
| 15 | I 'm going to wait to see how some other injuries settle down before I decide whether I should bring in a replacement . ’ |
| 16 | I guess we 'll just have to wait to see how it works out in the US . |
| 17 | We will have to wait to see how the new system works . |
| 18 | In the event one is hard pressed to see how hers is a theology , as opposed to simply a political agenda for the liberation of people . |
| 19 | You 'd be hard pressed to see how a package costing , say , £49.95 could possibly have a special upgrade price , but Guildsoft manages it . |
| 20 | ‘ Those nondescript spots and blotches of fur and feathers are the wildlife we tend to see most often , ’ he writes . |
| 21 | Part of the problem is that most of us do n't know very much about mental illness and we tend to see very negative images around us and on television . |
| 22 | These responses are then examined to see how the subjects perform on the production of certain given morphemes ( the progressive morpheme — ing , the plural morpheme , the past tense morpheme , etc. ) in linguistic contexts which would , in native speaker speech , require their obligatory occurrence . |
| 23 | It is important that they should understand that they are not being examined to see how ignorant they are but that you are trying , with their help , to help them to become good spellers . |
| 24 | The views of councillors , officers , members of the public and the ombudsmen themselves will be sought and practices will be examined to see how far general principles emerge and how far recommendations for some improvement in the current situation might be possible . |
| 25 | Yes , thought Berdichev ; but I 'm the last person you expected to see up here today . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was the sort of set Haute Epoque specialist dealers said they never expected to see again in their lifetimes . |
| 28 | Zelah seemed to know everybody and the Wycliffes were introduced to a bewildering variety of people whom they never expected to see again . |
| 29 | Plus , plus you got to see how the other breeds are doing , and |
| 30 | 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 . |