Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] see [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In my lifetime , it 's unlikely that I 'll see that sort of system — the one which currently is being dismantled — back in place and in good health . |
| 2 | People I have worked with I 've identified as having problems that I can see some sort solution to in terms , for instance , of hospital treatment erm at times I 've been unable to erm to do that because the Act is very difficult to work round erm and in retrospect I 'm very |
| 3 | I sincerely hope that there is a MAJOR signing imminent — not that I can see any player replacing Mr Batty . |
| 4 | He was so close that she could see little gold flecks in the brown of his eyes . |
| 5 | I 'm delighted with that , the budget came out er , much better than I 'd hoped it would do , and er , and I , I am sure that we shall see some improvement in the police er , over the next year . |
| 6 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 7 | The leading frog sat in a clump of moss and swivelled each eye so that it could see both worlds at the same time . |
| 8 | It is most unlikely that he will see any reason of that kind . |