Example sentences of "he [vb past] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , by the grace of God , he lived to see , in the ‘ Glorious Revolution ’ of 1688 , the downfall of his persecutors . |
| 2 | He lived to see the headquarters of the organization to which he had devoted his life established in purpose-built premises on the site at the National Water Sports Centre . |
| 3 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 4 | He lived to see South Africa bend instead . |
| 5 | The plan was to build a building and to endow it , and though we are very sad that Dr McDonald died before he lived to see his schemes carried through , he approved all the building designs , and made very full provision in his will , as he had promised . |
| 6 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 7 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 8 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 9 | At the briefing he agreed to see Alfred , while Kersey would talk to the son-in-law , Barry Morse . |
| 10 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 11 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 12 | When he opened his eyes , the taste of blood sharp in his mouth , he expected to see the assassin disappearing into the shadows of the park , but the bizarre Mr Pie was standing at the kerb looking back at him . |
| 13 | He expected to see " Japanese " subjects , the colours of Monticelli , the forms of Cezanne and Renoir , the southern light lauded by Gauguin as a mystic necessity . |
| 14 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea welcomed the recent progress in relations between the two states , and on July 6 suggested that he expected to see Korean reunification achieved within five years . |
| 16 | In a radio address on 24 May , for example , he announced three major categories of reform , which he expected to see accomplished before the end of the year : reform of the civil service ; nationalization of the coal , electricity , and banking industries ; and a plan to boost France 's birthrate . |
| 17 | He saw in her face what he expected to see . |
| 18 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 19 | Even Moses , when he asked to see God 's glory , was told , ‘ You can not see my face ; for man shall not see me and live ’ ( Exod. |
| 20 | Anyway , the day came when he asked to see Jimmy and me . |
| 21 | He asked to see his social services file and eventually the local authority agreed , provided the donors of information consented . |
| 22 | He asked to see Laura , but was told that she had no wish to see him . |
| 23 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 24 | He asked to see the images in the church , of which there was so much talk . |
| 25 | He asked to see the officer involved in the investigation of the earlier charge . |
| 26 | He asked to see the horse and they took him to the stable . |
| 27 | And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant . |
| 28 | Although he was the first to use motor transport on an extensive scale in Lewis — many a time as a youngster I ran a mile to see his fleet of yellow Fords — he failed to see that the advent of the bus made it possible for the crofter to live in the country and work in the town . |
| 29 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 30 | Jones then remarked that , even if there were some commercial benefits , he failed to see how they could be vouchsafed for Utah , and reviewed the history of his own group 's work at Brigham Young University . |