Example sentences of "to see [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those unions organised on a comprehensive , industrial basis it is easy to see that they would be likely to seek bargaining arrangements founded upon the extent of the product market . |
| 2 | A series of components can be checked in a simple manner to see that they can be assembled together , making use of the enclosing box for each part . |
| 3 | Yet the first indications that London was soon to show explosive growth were already present , and it did not need much foresight to see that it would not be long before any green-field site chosen near London for the location of the College would soon be engulfed in bricks and mortar , which would sweep away hay- and grazing-fields , market gardens and brickfields alike . |
| 4 | thank you um , it will be quick ah one of the things which caused distress last year was the reduction in the for sixth formers and I was sorry to see that it would n't be restored this time . |
| 5 | Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly . |
| 6 | One merely has to read its wording to see that it can not be given any sensible meaning in a context such as the present , where the mind and will of the defendants are also treated in law as the mind and will of ‘ the other . ’ |
| 7 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 8 | Yet it did not require much imagination to see that it could only be one thing : the so-called " rice-water " fluid from a cholera patient , which Dr McNab claimed was so deadly . |
| 9 | She had been determined to see that it should . |
| 10 | For an unbalanced moment she thought it might be Gordon Hodge , pursuing her to see that she would not come back , and make a nuisance of herself to Edward . |
| 11 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 12 | Not that he had minded in the least , for if he had a daughter as rich as Gemma and a fellow like Tristan Gage were to come along he 'd take all the necessary steps himself to see that she could never be cheated . |
| 13 | Taking equation ( 4.29 ) to represent the economist 's model , it is easy to see that he would recommend to a government that if it wished to achieve a higher level of real output it should raise the rate of growth of the quantity of money . |
| 14 | In this way we may be able to see that he would both agree and disagree with the Archbishop 's statement . |
| 15 | Although ‘ t is easy to see that he could not leave you behind , nor take his eyes off you for a moment . |
| 16 | He always felt that if he allowed his father to see that he could wheedle Georg , it would be the thin end of the wedge . |
| 17 | ‘ There was I , feeling flattered at the attention you were paying me , when all the time you were just testing me out to see that I would n't dry up on the air ! |
| 18 | I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed . |
| 19 | I hate to see that I must say . |
| 20 | Nenna thought : I 'm pleased for him to see that I can make a proper job of something . |
| 21 | I began to see that you might have a grain of truth lurking there somewhere , and the more I thought about it the more it made sense . |
| 22 | That proposition presupposes that if you make a reduction in the district figures , then you must have an idea what the district contribution towards the Greater York figure is , er and I find it difficult to see that you can have , if you have a new settlement , if you have a new settlement the C provision for the new settlement floating in this table , erm but can I just say before we adjourn for coffee , that I really would like to have some very firm answers to the questions which are posed under issue two , er and particularly about two D and that is specific guidance on the location of the new settlement . |
| 23 | I had taken a couple of slices of bread up the tree with me , with the intention of feeding small pieces of pinched flake into their midst to see if they would accept them . |
| 24 | Working under the name of Professor Dent ( a minor henchman in Dr No ) we contacted newspapers and magazines to see if they would take the following advertisements : |
| 25 | The Anfield squad gave blood after a training session this week to see if they would be a suitable match for 10-year-old leukaemia sufferer Paul Mainwaring . |
| 26 | Sales estimated at many thousands of pounds are believed to have been lost and insurance companies were being consulted to see if they would pay out for loss of business . |
| 27 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |
| 28 | She waited to see if they would resume , if Maurin would mention anything of their own talk in the kitchen . |
| 29 | He watched to see if they would look over at him and Slater , but they did n't . |
| 30 | In late 1687 he began polling the deputy lieutenants and JPs to see if they would assist him in obtaining the election of a Parliament committed to the repeal of the penal laws and the Tests . |