Example sentences of "have [adv] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tretyakov Director Yuriy Korolev confirmed the idea of construction with him , and now Yeltsin has effectively seen to it that the project is carried out . |
| 2 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 3 | He also enthuses about the extraordinary steam trains he has recently seen for himself , reading from a journal which he has been writing while away . |
| 4 | Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar . |
| 5 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd better see for myself . |
| 7 | You 'd better see for yourself . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And now , I think we 'd better see about keeping a special watch on the road . |
| 9 | So you 'd better see to it that Luke and Sonny do n't go often to the village . |
| 10 | ‘ Well — ’ She went to the fire and ground the kettle on top of the glowing tins , then added , ‘ As you 're takin' over , you 'd better see to it . ’ |
| 11 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 12 | I think you 'd better see to it . |
| 13 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 14 | ‘ Th 'd best see to the port then , instead of blowing about under my feet , ’ Salt snapped . |
| 15 | I would n't have been the first guy he 'd ever seen at that hour . |
| 16 | Sergeant Newton Barrios had investigated more than seven hundred traffic fatalities in the city of New Orleans , but this was the worst he 'd ever seen on the St Claude Avenue Bridge . |
| 17 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 18 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 19 | I saw the largest bare belly I 'd ever seen in life . |
| 20 | She was the loveliest girl that I 'd ever seen in my life , and her voice was like music . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ He was n't somebody I 'd ever seen in here before , perhaps that 's why I took notice . |
| 22 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
| 23 | I saw the biggest , steepest cylinders of water I 'd ever seen from the relative sanctuary of the beach , and Pottz finally landed the world title . |
| 24 | We finally departed from the house as the pillager 's husband was scrabbling through the kitchen drawers in search of a rubber band he knew he 'd once seen in there somewhere … |
| 25 | Ronni also understood now that hurt look she 'd sometimes seen in his eyes during his angry exchanges with Silvia . |
| 26 | She was more bothered than ever , for Timothy 's eyes had a dreamy look which she 'd never seen in them before , and he 'd lingered over the girl 's name whenever he had used it . |
| 27 | Most of the food was of a kind that she 'd never seen in the shops ; there was no wine or beer , but Belov had a hip-flask of vodka . |
| 28 | I was n't too keen on this cheek to cheek business , with men I 'd never seen before and did n't know the names of , but I kept on telling myself not to be standoffish and to relax a bit , but as for jiving — no , I could n't do that . |
| 29 | He even had on a collar and tie , which I 'd never seen before and which he would tug at every now and then as if it were too tight . |
| 30 | He pulled the table closer to the fire and draped his cloak over it to dry , but his movements lacked the usual lithe , co-ordinated strength Isabel had hitherto seen in him , and she noticed that he was n't using his left arm at all . |