Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] see [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |
| 2 | I watched her go with sadness in my heart because I felt for some inexplicable reason that I would never see Granny again . |
| 3 | Ted and I will never see eye to eye about his clients , whom he likes , respects and positively enjoys dragging over hills to bag stags , whereas I loathe these numbskulls who think killing is ‘ sport ’ . |
| 4 | You may occasionally see precision artwork transfers available which are thicker ( 25 microns ) . |
| 5 | The pain would return , she knew , cruel and cutting , but pride and hurt meant little compared to the fear that she might never see fitzAlan again . |
| 6 | You might also see gadwall , Brent geese and Bewick 's swans . |
| 7 | She could just see Roman 's car and she was blinded by a rush of tears as she realised she would never again sit in it by his side . |
| 8 | Elizabeth listened intently , till she could practically see steam puffing out of the ears of Seumas Ban and Lady Bridhe . |
| 9 | She did n't think she would ever see freedom . |
| 10 | We may never see husband Joe , kids Brian and Melandra , and the other characters who have unwittingly contributed to seal Shirley 's domestic destiny . |
| 11 | Hopefully as we improve our business , we may indeed see TV advertising in future years and we hope that we will become as well known as IBM , 3M or ICI . ’ |
| 12 | Right we 'll now see chairman 's remarks which erm since Alan is not here has asked me to read . |
| 13 | I expect we 'll now see trade unionists and others appointed where appropriate . |
| 14 | Maybe we shall soon see legislation , necessary for the health of the nation , aimed at preventing individuals from harbouring dangerous thoughts . |
| 15 | ‘ The golden rule of conduct , therefore , is mutual toleration seeing that we will never all think alike and that we shall always see Truth in fragment ( sic ) and from different angles of vision ’ . |
| 16 | In practice , we will soon see desktop videoconferencing becoming a standard feature of computer communications . |
| 17 | And what we can then see happening is a hardening of specific judgements into presumptions of classes , based now not only on mixed criteria ( for there are held to be cases of ‘ skilfully executed nonsense ’ or ‘ professionally brilliant hokum ’ as well as of ‘ clumsy art ’ or ‘ raw but authentic artistic power ’ ) but also , and crucially , on criteria which are incompatible with the original delimitation by the nature of the practice . |
| 18 | We can now see persona as a socially negotiated , linguistically realised manifestation of " footing " , animated by the speaker and mediated by the speaker 's existing stereotypes ( at least partially shared by other participants in the interaction . ) |
| 19 | I was watching Sky replays of the incident over tea and snickers at half time , and heard the pundits blathering about a handball by Rod Wallace which they could clearly see happening , but I could n't . |
| 20 | And if he did n't do that she could n't possibly see how they would ever see eye to eye . |