Example sentences of "he [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This copper said 'e used ter be on the Tunnel beat an' 'e 'd seen a bloke who looked like me knockin' around wiv 'em . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've sweated blood to get him to agree to see me at all . |
| 3 | It made him laugh to see her standing there , shaking her fist at the departing van . |
| 4 | He admits , however , to being torn over the interest rate argument ; part of him wants to see rates held to stabilise the economy , but he also wants to see quick cuts to boost business . |
| 5 | Well , it 's because it 's a waste of time stopping him going to see them , if that does n't work you do n't keep doing it do you ? |
| 6 | Several times I saw him look to see how many pages more he had to read . |
| 7 | She says he must have been released early , and she 's dreading him coming to see her and demanding his parents ’ address . |
| 8 | Yet the Expressionist in him kept seeing psychological equivalents everywhere . |
| 9 | Maureen asked him to call to see her mother , and the doctor examined her carefully . |
| 10 | He remembered a swamp draining into a lagoon some distance to the right of the highway — the road must have been raised for him to have seen that distance . |
| 11 | The bond of brotherhood wishes him to go far but the bitter reality of family relationships cracked by circumstance makes him determined to see his own brother sink . |
| 12 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
| 13 | However , by the grace of God , he lived to see , in the ‘ Glorious Revolution ’ of 1688 , the downfall of his persecutors . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He lived to see South Africa bend instead . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 19 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why does he want to see me ? . |
| 21 | Why should he want to see her ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why does he want to see me ? ’ |
| 23 | Why does he want to see me ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 26 | At the briefing he agreed to see Alfred , while Kersey would talk to the son-in-law , Barry Morse . |
| 27 | Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes on the Lamont affair WHEN he goes to see a Shakespeare play he wants to know what happens at the end . |
| 28 | So he goes to see his mother who 's a nurse at the |
| 29 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 30 | 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 . |