Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces . |
| 2 | Normally if you go in I suppose normally they , bother normally see . |
| 3 | And his first goal tends to get forgotten … but it was 100 times better than Cuntona 's effort a few weeks back , and better than Peles effort … in fact probably the best goal of that type ( 45 yard lobs ) youll ever see . |
| 4 | ‘ I still expect ter see 'im come walkin' out o' that yard , ’ she said , nodding to the Galloway stables on the bend of the street . |
| 5 | It 's yer weddin' day termorra and we all want ter see yer 'appy . |
| 6 | Someone 's got ta come round I mean just to see where but I just I 'll ring , I 'll give you a buzz on Monday , I know you 're not there , you can say , well , I 'll see you again on Tuesday in English , perhaps you can arrange something then . |
| 7 | On the rare occasions when the cooling towers are for maintenance , the staff wait eagerly to see what the pond reveals . |
| 8 | That free kick is the best Ive ever seen by ANY player . |
| 9 | If you wait here to see that no one interferes with the body , I 'll get a statement from the woman , and take her to her job , whatever it is . |
| 10 | I can see part of Horse Guards Parade almost see myself standing there the other afternoon , looking up at these windows , still ignorant of what I was looking at . |
| 11 | I draw parallel with the door and crane forward to see into the room . |
| 12 | And Ive never seen a ball hit from that far out , rise in a straight line ( showing the power behind it ) . |
| 13 | Pine trees somewhere in the foreground , open enough to see through but framing the picture . |
| 14 | Look inside to see how Oxford can help … |
| 15 | One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel . |
| 16 | Jaq hardly saw . |
| 17 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 18 | Lawyers , basically , are trained for and used to an adversary system — where they act either for the prosecution or plaintiff , or for the defence — and seem always to see things in terms of guilt or innocence . |
| 19 | Look carefully to see how the patterns change in the different streets and squares . |
| 20 | In the future , therefore , we must encourage publishers to be a little more forthcoming about the basis on which they offer readability data , and look carefully to see whether what they have calculated really is the population mean of the book in question . |
| 21 | Start the conversation in a normal voice , and watch carefully to see how the answer matches the question . |
| 22 | NISW initially saw the need after receiving a large number of requests for information and assistance from home and abroad . |
| 23 | During the 1970s , the government began a long programme under which medieval mosques would be restored and some of the glory of Iraq 's Islamic past reasserted , with Baghdad , Basra and Mosul again seen as centres of Arab culture . |
| 24 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |
| 25 | I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast |
| 26 | it 's that much bigger so , you know just see how the top one goes and then I can copy that to the bottom |
| 27 | I 'll be spending all day on the phone when I get home to see if things can be sorted out . |
| 28 | I REMEMBER once seeing a small girl remove a tin of soup from halfway down a display stack in a supermarket . |
| 29 | I remember once seeing her turn into our gateway , and a boy on a bicycle spat at her . |
| 30 | I tricked him , but I had to , I remember once seeing a mosaic , a Roman mosaic . |