Example sentences of "see [conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly was the last point that I understood ; I remember lying awake thinking about it , seeing that I could move any four edges into the working locations and realising that this completed the general method for restoring the cube to its original state . |
| 2 | Then , while Leith was again holding down the urge to hit him , and seeing that he 'd prefer not to sack her without just cause — thereby deeply offending his cousin — he had bent and picked up his briefcase . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed . |
| 8 | I hate to see that I must say . |
| 9 | Nenna thought : I 'm pleased for him to see that I can make a proper job of something . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Even though we shall not necessarily admit it , ’ said Feradach and Nuadu had seen that they would serve even a bastard scion of the Wolfline before any other creature . |
| 13 | We have seen that they can acquire new characteristics if infected by a plasmid . |
| 14 | Now we have seen that we can use Xd in place of X , where d is an arbitrary diagonal matrix ; and it therefore follows that unc is also diagonal . |
| 15 | unc You have already seen that we can use equations to work out problems . |
| 16 | Some early critics of Wordsworth 's ‘ simple ’ style thought that he was stupid and incompetent ; but we have already seen that he could write with due regard to eighteenth-century decorum . |
| 17 | Such being the principal work which the Resident is called upon to perform under the system of Indirect Rule , it will be seen that he can receive little help from outside sources … |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the only castle I 've ever seen that I can imagine living in , ’ she said , standing in the upper gallery and gazing at the magnificent views from the windows . |
| 19 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 20 | Seen a a lot of other things I would n't have seen if I 'd have been working down a pit or behind a shop counter or something . |
| 21 | These companies are being heavily promoted by Luxembourg advisers , but it still remains to be seen whether they will gain business at the expense of the Netherlands . |
| 22 | So it remains to be seen whether we may have such a network , or perhaps even assuming that nearly all the cheap oil runs out , whether we might in fact manufacture petrol artificially from wood , coal , or gas , simply to provide the excellent fuel with its wonderful storage characteristics for long distance transport . |
| 23 | It remains to be seen whether we can learn by analogy . |
| 24 | It remains to be seen whether it will suffer the fate of numerous other initiatives on the inner cities and fade into obscurity . |
| 25 | It remains to be seen whether it will prove to have been a short lived experiment or the basis for UK urban policy . |
| 26 | Where do you start with love , every body wants to love , every body wants to be loved , every one at some time or another is disappointed by love and while its difficult sometimes talking about it not talking about it can have some really serious consequences , so let's try to get to the heart of it tonight , one hundred women are prepared to share their wisdom if not their secrets , I 'd like to start off by seeing if we can differentiate between loving and being in love . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're seeing if we can move the gear lever , Dorcas , ’ said Nooty . |
| 28 | Tuesday night about seeing if we can do a bit more sorting out in her bedroom . |
| 29 | Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature . |
| 30 | This was a Hibs side , too , with no need to fear relegation and every incentive to probe for damage done by Rangers ' injury crisis while seeing if they could move themselves closer to a place in Europe . |