Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 2 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 3 | Much rather see you drink . |
| 4 | Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again . |
| 5 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 6 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 7 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 8 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 9 | ‘ And you wo n't even let the boy stay long enough to see his mother ? ’ said the yeoman without animosity . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd been waiting long enough to see it . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't think I 'd live long enough to see it mature . |
| 12 | It was not until the last hymn that Ianthe happened to turn her head slightly and not so much see him as become conscious that he was sitting behind her and presumably had been throughout the service . |
| 13 | I only only saw it cos it , it 's |
| 14 | By the length of the pause that followed , before he opened his eyes and looked dazedly down to see what fate had granted him , he went in some devout fear of his deserving . |
| 15 | ‘ But you 'd better not see him for too long . |
| 16 | And a very good example , if you put these two together just to see what you can do by moving round to a different viewpoint . |
| 17 | I believe the police spent some time asking him questions but he had obviously not seen you so that was that . |
| 18 | And he and we did n't really I only just saw him fleetingly . |
| 19 | ‘ I only just saw it . ’ |
| 20 | This is in today 's edition , I 've only just seen it . ’ |
| 21 | She tried to look down at her feet , and could only just see them . |
| 22 | It was a dark , wet , misty night , and we could only just see someone ahead of us . |
| 23 | Although I was not fortunate enough ever to see him in the flesh , I suggest that his picture should be tattooed on the brain of every aspiring judge . |
| 24 | ‘ He could have a point , ’ Claudia said ; Dana only ever saw her own point of view . |
| 25 | She married and he only ever saw her once again , yet declared : ‘ She was really , really , the only being in the world who could have given me peace and rest . ’ |
| 26 | Back home you only ever saw one at a time . |
| 27 | Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . |
| 28 | I 've only ever seen one before right , I watched it last night and it 's the same fucking one . |
| 29 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |