Example sentences of "[adv] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't take long to see it would be useless . ’ |
| 2 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to come especially to see you this morning , Leith , ’ he said earnestly as he fell into step with her . |
| 4 | There were no landmarks , no features by which they could determine their position even if it had been light enough to see them . |
| 5 | The expected backlash arrived this afternoon at Dixon Park when a brilliant display of attacking football against hapless Ballyclare Comrades produced six goals — four of them from David McCallan — enough to see them safely through to the last eight of the TNT Gold Cup . |
| 6 | She wondered if she would be fortunate enough to see him when they returned to Millfield . |
| 7 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 8 | Above all he knew little more about Matthew Glynn than might reasonably appear in his obituary , but he needed to know the man well enough to see him going about his daily life against the background of his home and shop and in the context of his family , friends , and acquaintances . |
| 9 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 10 | Even Emmie , though she knew Mr Hellyer to be a thief and therefore in some ways unreliable , was still young enough to see him as grown-up and therefore entirely competent in an emergency . |
| 11 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 12 | Ask Mr Swanson if he would be kind enough to see me here , as soon as possible . |
| 13 | She rose to her feet , saying , ‘ Well , I 'll be seeing you , that 's if you 're all sober enough to see me . ’ |
| 14 | As markers , we would be happy enough to see you argue either way as long as you recognized that there is indeed room for argument over this point . |
| 15 | And my parents , who , as Dad put it , " have quite enough to see you right " from the sale of used cars in Dad 's showroom , had paid the deposit for us as a wedding present . |
| 16 | If they get close enough to see you — about one inch — they will bite . |
| 17 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 18 | Ibn Battuta was lucky enough to see it in its prime : |
| 19 | ‘ He 'd been waiting long enough to see it . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't think I 'd live long enough to see it mature . |
| 21 | This quotation from the Muslim News shows how important the distinction is , and what misinterpretation is possible if pupils are not helped sufficiently to see it : |
| 22 | It should be noted that , despite the historical primacy of arithmetic calculation as the raison d'etre for computers , we ought perhaps to see them instead as symbol-processing devices . |
| 23 | It had always hurt , merely to see him , but this went deeper . |
| 24 | After her husband told her they had been ruined by Wickens , she stormed off to confront him , only to see him setting off on his bicycle . |
| 25 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 26 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 27 | He told us of families who had built ramshackle premises on unused land only to see them bulldozed . |
| 28 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 29 | When the box arrived , the zoologist took the animal out to examine it , only to see it keel over and lie motionless on her hand . |
| 30 | At best we are trapped in a modern version of the ancient myth of Sisyphus : condemned forever to roll the electoral stone to the top of the hill only to see it roll back down again . |