Example sentences of "[adv] see it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , such is trust , they went on seeing it after it had gone , for by now they were used to the constant and bewildering ebb and flow of Stevenson money . |
| 2 | It did n't take long to see it would be useless . ’ |
| 3 | Her parents had invited the neighbours in to see it , too . |
| 4 | But when Woodruffe took Woolley in to see it , nobody was looking at the trench-systems . |
| 5 | But she still has n't had any body in to see it |
| 6 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 7 | Ibn Battuta was lucky enough to see it in its prime : |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd been waiting long enough to see it . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't think I 'd live long enough to see it mature . |
| 10 | This quotation from the Muslim News shows how important the distinction is , and what misinterpretation is possible if pupils are not helped sufficiently to see it : |
| 11 | David heard about that , went along to see it one day , and that 's how the partnership with Lindsay started . ’ |
| 12 | Tony Visconti : ‘ When David and Angela found the enormous Victorian house , Haddon Hall , in Beckenham , my girlfriend and I went along to see it and we loved it . |
| 13 | David and Angela came along to see it and David said , ‘ I must introduce you to this guy Tony DeFries who is going to be my manager , and I think you should meet him too . ’ |
| 14 | If you can get along to see it ( entrance is free ) you will never see sheep in quite the same light again . |
| 15 | If so I propose to install it tonight and invite you along to see it and make suggestions before you leave . ’ |
| 16 | When the box arrived , the zoologist took the animal out to examine it , only to see it keel over and lie motionless on her hand . |
| 17 | At best we are trapped in a modern version of the ancient myth of Sisyphus : condemned forever to roll the electoral stone to the top of the hill only to see it roll back down again . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think I 've lost a fortune only to see it salted away in the same nip-cheese fashion as before ? |
| 21 | But it was certainly not one-way traffic in front of an absorbed 19,528 crowd although Dean Saunders had the ball in the net for Villa as early as the tenth minute only to see it wiped out for offside . |
| 22 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 23 | The next day he took Sam down to see it . |
| 24 | that I 've been down to see it . |
| 25 | I went in there and bought some chewing gum when I went down to see it |
| 26 | had only seen it |
| 27 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've been banned anywhere , ’ said Barry , adding that singer Michael Stipe had been involved in the production of the video and that the rest of the band had only seen it once . |
| 28 | Rufus had only seen it while eating partridge which had been winged instead of shot in the head and had nearly broken one of his teeth on the tiny ball of lead . |
| 29 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |