Example sentences of "[adv] see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the moment , he was canny enough to see the wisdom of keeping his stepson sweet , and that would not be achieved by stirring up a hornets ' nest . |
| 32 | Having waited patiently to see the fruits of Independence , people are now asking how their ‘ daytime socialist ’ leader can afford to drive brand-new imported cars while ‘ shortage of foreign exchange ’ prevents purchase of spare parts for the run-down buses . |
| 33 | The nodes or links point to text blocks , but the semantic net can be seen without necessarily seeing the text blocks . |
| 34 | They did it with such tenderness that I gained new strength from their friendship , suddenly seeing the value in continuing , if only to deepen that shared bond . |
| 35 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 36 | They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line . |
| 37 | In the 12th minute , Oliver Schafer fired a low angled shot past Chris Woods only to see the ball hit a post . |
| 38 | Sometimes I watched a den for hours , waiting for some action , only to see the mink return with a freshly caught eel , having made an invisible exit earlier . |
| 39 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 40 | If I was curious it was only to see the rest of the house . |
| 41 | To which he might be inclined to plead guilty ; if only to see the expression on our face . |
| 42 | A foolish general might surround his Pump Wagon with friendly units only to see the machine crunch through his own lines in the first turn ! |
| 43 | They raced onto the platform , followed a minute or two later by a panting Naseby , only to see the railway train , now bearing Miss Throgmorton , steaming slowly away , enveloping them in white smoke . |
| 44 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 45 | It is not enough for us only to see the need of the contract ( the essence of level one ) or even the attractiveness and reliability of the terms ( levels two and three ) . |
| 46 | Developing countries have been climbing hard throughout the 1980s , only to see the summit receding farther up beyond the clouds . |
| 47 | The Spartans went for two points only to see the attempt fail and the score remained 13–12 . |
| 48 | Bissett had only to see the wire of the Citadel 's perimeter , to see the smoke from the Citadel 's chimneys , to feel a loathing for the place . |
| 49 | It is only to see the dentist and escape the heat . |
| 50 | When I thought he had finished , I opened them , only to see the plane make a parabola in the sky and dive on me again , firing away furiously in an attempt to eliminate me . |
| 51 | ‘ It is , ’ she agreed , then bit her lip , only seeing the trap he 'd set for her when she 'd already tumbled straight into it . |
| 52 | The neighbours came to their kitchen windows better to see the antics of this strange lady , and I managed to yell , ‘ Get Trudie , quick ! ’ |
| 53 | Well I mean that , they do n't expect necessarily to see the evidence do they ? |
| 54 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |
| 55 | A lucky few even made it inside to see the Lizard King roll around on stage again . |
| 56 | Well I 've only seen the back of it . |
| 57 | But through the clogging pain in her breast , she could only seen the gaze of Lady Usk — dark and knowing . |
| 58 | Since the war had begun , she 'd only seen the enemy on newsreels . |
| 59 | Although they have only seen the creature far away , it is exactly like the hell-hound of the Baskerville story . |
| 60 | The past two years have only seen the start of the process , and in terms of M4 the process has not been started at all . |