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

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1 IT FRIGHTENED me to see just how addicted our youngsters have become to computer games after reading of the 15,000-strong crowd at the Future Entertainment Show at Earls Court .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’
5 The next day Errol called me to see how I was .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 But it enabled me to see how tough a negotiator Eliot himself could be .
9 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
10 I knew it would n't hurt me to see how a gallery really functions , so I took the job .
11 Oh it does hurt me to see how much the girls have spent on Christmas wrapping paper
12 So Gerard 's his name , erm , remind me to see about , are you free tomorrow at eleven ?
13 All those who were kind enough to offer me hospitality wanted me to see as much as possible in the time when I was not teaching .
14 Why have I seen only three Harmony guitars for sale in your classified section since 1990 ?
15 Never before , he wrote , have I seen so clearly how to end .
16 Seldom before had I seen so many priests and nuns on the streets or as many churches per square mile .
17 I thought it might be frozen all over , like a picture I seen once with all these people skating on the ice , but it ai n't .
18 Erm Jill can I see please .
19 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 .
20 And shall I see when the garage can take in the car ?
21 Can I see upstairs ? ’
22 Can I see then all those in favour of the resolution as amended ?
23 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 .
24 The upshot was I saw exactly what not to do with my life .
25 After a couple of days I saw Shelly outside .
26 We continued unimpeded until I saw ahead of me the drawing-room where I had interviewed Mountbatten , and sitting on one of the sofas with his back to us the unmistakable profile and balding head of Prince Charles .
27 A dip in the hill , much like those at Sulber Nick and Kirkby Nick , led over the crest by an outcrop and as I walked out from the dip I saw ahead of me Raydale with , to my left , Semer Water and Addlebrough behind it .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 I saw where I was drifting and I was concerned about hitting the hangar but it was all right
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