Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [vb mod] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 2 | Well I would n't er I do n't expect most things will completely but anyway we 'll see . |
| 3 | But tonight we can see by moonlight . |
| 4 | But somehow I can see that not working out . |
| 5 | the basis of this fifteen grand , is using the fifteen grand but like we can see you using that |
| 6 | But still they could see no sign of it . |
| 7 | But also one can see families in these situations creating maximum flexibility by using some members for household-based production and some for different types of waged work in what Wall calls the adaptive family economy : ‘ their economic activities were diversified against the prospect of bad times and to make the most of the good ’ ( 1986 , p. 294 ) . |
| 8 | They were supposed to heighten our perceptions , but really I could see little difference between my ordinary vision of life , which was fantastic enough , and what the pills apparently produced , mainly a nervous sleeplessness shot through with incoherent babblings and bursts of laughter alternating with floods of tears . |
| 9 | But now she could see the charm , could read the meaning , of the observer 's role , a meaning inaccessible to a sixteen-year-old , to a thirty-year-old — for the observer was not , as she had from the vantage , the disadvantage of childhood supposed , charged with an envious and impotent malice , and consumed with a fear of imminent death : no , the observer was filled and informed with a quick and lively and long-established interest in all those that passed before , in all those that moved and circled and wheeled around , was filled with intimate connections and loving memories and hopes and concerns and prospects . |
| 10 | She had not realised how she would never stop needing him but now she could see the future and it was dark . |
| 11 | But now he could see that the thing was hardly a threat . |
| 12 | But now you can see why I 'm in no hurry to contact London . |
| 13 | Maybe you have read of gold being found in a particular locality , but now you can see it . |
| 14 | I laughed then but now I can see what she meant . |
| 15 | I was still carrying the child , but now I could see you riding away into the distance . |
| 16 | But tomorrow we 'll see how the acknowledged master of glass conservation is making Fairford 's windows shine again with a medieval light |
| 17 | ‘ But tomorrow you 'll see the other side of the coin . |
| 18 | We may have our worries about the different future we see opening up before us — it would be odd if we did not — but surely we must see what is happening at the Brandenburg Gate as a European as well as a German triumph . |
| 19 | We may have our worries about the different future we see opening up before us — it would be odd if we did not — but surely we must see what is happening at the Brandenburg Gate as a European as well as a German triumph . |
| 20 | ‘ Obviously , you 're fond of him , but surely you can see ? |
| 21 | ‘ I know how fond you are of your uncle , but even you must see what would happen if he was left holding the reins . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't know who you 're looking for and I do n't want to know but even I can see that whoever it is he wo n't be overjoyed to see you … ’ |
| 23 | Well , I know I 'm no financial expert , but even I can see the money 's there . ’ |
| 24 | I may not be good at long-lasting relationships , but even I can see this is not the way to become those Folks on the Hill , Darby and Joan , who used to be Jack and Jill … |
| 25 | He was on a white horse but even she could see that it was not Ana 's horse . |
| 26 | But here we could see for ourselves how timber-framed partition walls , filled in with brickwork , were used on the upper storeys over the larger rooms to ensure no weight pressed on their ceilings ; and how joiners had constructed the mahogany bookcases in the library . |
| 27 | I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill . |
| 28 | But sometimes you can see ooh that one and that one who just go together and they do n't choose each other |
| 29 | But then I would see her shopping in the area . |
| 30 | Butterflies spend a lot of their time sucking nectar from flowers , but occasionally you will see one settle for a short while on a leaf or stem , then fly away . |