Example sentences of "i see [Wh adv] " in BNC.

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1 That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going .
2 It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her .
3 It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’
4 The next day Errol called me to see how I was .
5 This practical demonstration of working positively with conflict gives me confidence in your work and helps me to see how I can listen better to others .
6 I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth .
7 But it enabled me to see how tough a negotiator Eliot himself could be .
8 I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement
9 I knew it would n't hurt me to see how a gallery really functions , so I took the job .
10 Oh it does hurt me to see how much the girls have spent on Christmas wrapping paper
11 Nor do I see why caregivers should be expected to sustain a focus on personal relationships which would not ordinarily exist in the encounters between young people and adults .
12 And shall I see when the garage can take in the car ?
13 Nor did I see how gods worshipped in days of continual tribal war and plunder could adjust themselves to the world where Peace is an ideal — the Christian world .
14 Above , I saw where a hole in the tin roof had been repaired with a flattened-out biscuit tin that had once contained Huntley and Palmer 's ginger nuts .
15 I followed him , Lily , and then — I could n't believe it — I saw where he 'd a desk key hidden , so then I put the books down sudden , and bent double .
16 I saw where I was drifting and I was concerned about hitting the hangar but it was all right
17 Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one .
18 I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ?
19 Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane .
20 The officer I saw when I joined said to me : " Are you keen about the A. F. S. ? "
21 This hypothesis was roughly confirmed by what I saw when I came to the quayside , or what had been the quayside when the lake existed .
22 As we looked across the water to Corinth and listened to the haunting bouzouki music I saw why so many people return year after year to Poseidon .
23 Then I saw why he was so confident .
24 I saw why it was receding .
25 ‘ It was not until I saw how Messer Bartolomeo 's news was received by your friends that I realised its importance for you . ’
26 I went along to some services and again I saw how happy people were .
27 You see , one thing that influenced me was reading about the great American champs and I saw how all the good champs were side-tracked , avoided , yet always seemed to make it late .
28 I learned everything from this first spectacle : I saw how the white ( French ) , superior , plutocratic , civilized world founded its power on the repression of populations who had suddenly become ‘ invisible ’ , like proletarians , immigrant workers , minorities who are not the right ‘ colour ’ .
29 I saw how protective he is about her , and how could he protect her better than by being married to her .
30 I saw how Brian Basham of Broad Street Associates and the barrister , Royston Webb , helped venal journalists to turn a sow 's ear into a golden purse , and how that golden purse was well received everywhere that it opened .
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