Example sentences of "[modal v] see [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda is on income support , yet you should see how the washing basket overflows ! |
| 2 | We 'll see when the entries come in ! |
| 3 | Then after a couple of weeks , we 'll see where the opposition are and go for it . |
| 4 | Next month we 'll see why the pentatonics can be taken from II , III or VI of any major scale/key and examine the sounds they create when superimposed over various chords . |
| 5 | The record card for such a client was scribbled over with the comment of dealers : " He 's about to buy a house ; has no funds ; he 'll see how the shares he already has do ; he 's going in for Rolls Royce , so has no money ; he 's still waiting for share certificates — once these have arrived he will think about further investment . " |
| 6 | I 'll see how the weather goes I mean I might hang it out I do n't know . |
| 7 | We 'll be taking a look around the scene here in a few moments , but first let's see how the people and town of Cheltenham prepares for the biggest invasion of the year . |
| 8 | Number two which is PHI again you know they 're married , they have two children , again this person 's a chartered accountant , however his wife does work and you 'll be using , let's see okay the income protection disability accident and illness page , just the top half to probe and gain his thoughts on income protection if he were to break his back and what he or she may or may not have er already set up , yeah ? |
| 9 | Schellenberg could see where the skin graft stretched tightly . |
| 10 | I walked up from his left and I could see where the canvas of his left trainer was coming away from its rubber base . |
| 11 | There was nothing arty or touristy about the old gods — a touch of pagan malevolence , perhaps — and I could see where the phrase ‘ rough-hewn honesty ’ had come from . |
| 12 | This time there were windows facing the child ( invisible to the competitor ) so the child could see where the chocolate was on each trial . |
| 13 | Further along , one could see where the street passed over a round-backed bridge and on into more rural surroundings . |
| 14 | Perhaps now he could see why the drawing was in a space by itself . |
| 15 | She wished him goodbye , thanked him for coming and could see again the face of his wife on the only occasion she had met her : tight-lipped , unable to approve , fiercely loyal to John . |
| 16 | The grey ovoid , some distance away , expanded and contracted in a movement which reminded Ace of nothing so much as chewing , although there was no way that she could see whereby the fruit could have been transmitted from one part of Legion to another . |
| 17 | He could see the money in the paintings and he could see also the alarm wires leading to them . |
| 18 | Worse , I could see clearly the image of Mala clinging to him within the circle of the powerful golden arm . |
| 19 | Before the light faded altogether Allen climbed in the oak but could see neither the Ridgery nor the column of smoke for which they were making . |
| 20 | Allen climbed a tree but although he climbed to a high bough and hung there swaying like a squirrel they were in a low-lying bowl of forest and he could see neither the Smoke nor the last rays of the westering sun but only leaves . |
| 21 | At first it was behind Claypole Ridge , and I could see only the top of it , the smallest smudge . |
| 22 | Two wooden fences , two wire fences , and all lit as day , all covered by the watch-towers standing in each corner of the compound , and over the highest of the wooden fences he could see only the roof of the prison . |
| 23 | Before another reading of this poem on the same visit , he announced that it began where he had begun , and that it ended where he and his wife hoped to end — in the parish church of a Somerset village ; he could see now the pattern of his life completed . |
| 24 | I leaned further over until I could see down the line of houses . |
| 25 | From the front attic window we could see down the rue de Fleuve to the river . |
| 26 | But Dot could see how the lady herself wore white cotton gloves to handle the clothing , so as not to touch it directly . |
| 27 | The Girl-Human had seated herself before the fire ; Inchbad could see how the firelight fell across her face and brought out red lights in her hair . |
| 28 | As she answered his questions she could see how the evidence against Pascoe was accumulating . |
| 29 | ‘ I could see how the notion of raiding charnel houses for the secrets of life had always been present in Shelley 's thought ; but these horrid machine speculations were new . |
| 30 | He knew when he was beneath the gate-towers because he could see how the machicolations projected against the sky rounded shapes of darkness void of stars ; but he heard not a sound , not even the tread of the watch on the walk between the towers . |