Example sentences of "[coord] to see [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose for living could have been revenge , to build a new homeland , or to see their family . |
| 2 | The leaders would now have to resign , to change their policy , or to see their policy rejected by Lancashire Unionists early in the new year . |
| 3 | The client had wanted either custody or to see his child every day . |
| 4 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 5 | Magistrate Roger Davies , ordered the teenager to live with her parents as a condition of bail and to see her child only under the supervision of local social services . |
| 6 | And if they are to develop critical abilities , and to see their work in a wider perspective , that too must be built into the curriculum and not just expected to happen . |
| 7 | National market research organisations such as the British Market Research Bureau and JICNARS ( Joint Industry Committee for National Readership Surveys ) , which are dealt with in a later chapter , code their surveys by ACORN to enable the advertiser to identify titles whose profiles best match his own , and to see what share of this target market that title reaches . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no need to be ashamed , ’ he said to himself , getting up off the bed and making his way to the door to see what his native Forest looked like in daylight and to see what sort of world it was where a man could be free and alone and full of shame . |
| 9 | The idea was to take a person who was in excellent nutritional shape and consuming a good , better than average diet without taking any vitamin or mineral supplements , who was a non-smoker and moderate consumer of alcohol , sugar , tea , coffee and chocolate ; and to see what effect consuming the national average amount of alcohol , cigarettes , sugar , tea , coffee and chocolate would do to this fine healthy specimen . |
| 10 | Given agreed formulae and atomic weights , the Periodic Table was waiting to be discovered ; Mendeleev 's contribution was to stake his reputation on it , and to see its power . |
| 11 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 12 | Joyce has now learned to honour her father 's memory and to see his worth . |
| 13 | " It has been very pleasant to spend the day here , Martha , and to see your boat . |
| 14 | But to see his face light up with pleasure as his eye lighted on a child 's painting or model spoke more to the teacher ( and the child ) about the sincerity of his concerns than a hundred words would . |