Example sentences of "see it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rather have seen it move to Merthyr Tydfil , Brecon , or anywhere else , because it is an authority for Wales . |
| 2 | He had seen fear , and bravery , too , and savagery and oppression , homes burned down , wheels smashed off carts and farm implements so that the land could not be cultivated , crops ruined — he had seen it spread everywhere and he did n't want to see it any more . |
| 3 | I 've seen it flood before but never as bad as that |
| 4 | If people had been in a building after we had been round testing it and seen it secure , they 'd come out and leave it open . |
| 5 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 6 | Helen thought she could distantly recall having seen it open with her mother upended over it , rummaging . |
| 7 | they must have seen it land or something like that . |
| 8 | Although I have not seen it scratch against rocks recently , it does still occasionally gulp air from the surface . |
| 9 | How long since I 've seen it loose ? |
| 10 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
| 11 | There was no doubt in my mind what I would do and I 've never regretted going into the business because we 've seen it grow enormously . |
| 12 | I came down when my husband was working on the factory site then as I say , prior to us coming to live here this was had n't been even built so we 've seen it grow from the floor to what it is today , you know ? |
| 13 | I have seen it grow from the seed , until now it dominates his thinking . |
| 14 | The central statistical office er show regional G T P figures for Cornwall in nineteen ninety one that put Cornwall so badly off er that our G D P is in fact just er seventy three percent of the national average , whilst Devon 's figures are eighty seven percent and I might add in terms of the different progress of the two , in nineteen eighty nine Cornwall 's G D P was seventy five point six percent so it 's actually fallen back whereas Plymouth 's was eighty five point five percent and you 've actually seen it grow . |
| 15 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've done a splendid job on that window , lass ; I 've never seen it look so bonny . |
| 17 | ‘ But I have not seen it close . |
| 18 | From where she stood it shimmered in silver under a glancing sun , though upstream at the inn , where she had seen it close to , it rolled darkly brown and turgid , and laden with the debris of bushes , for the spring thaw had come late and violently , bringing down an immense weight of snow-water from the mountains of Wales . |
| 19 | I 've never seen it flower |
| 20 | Privatisation in three ways , increasing compulsory competitive tendering , and we know what that is at , we 've seen it plan , quality control , ca n't clean the operating theatres . |
| 21 | We have seen it happen . |
| 22 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 23 | I 've seen it happen to a lot of good MDs that got fired . |
| 24 | He had seen it happen , like a click of the fingers , the start of life , when the foal opened its eyes and looked at him . |
| 25 | I have seen it happen , for instance , to people at retirement . |
| 26 | I 've seen it happen to new people coming in as well . |
| 27 | He lost his mother and has seen it happen , so to be away from his father would be impossible . |
| 28 | I had seen it happen at close quarters because I am his caddie . |
| 29 | He has seen it happen . |
| 30 | Sometimes it can : I have seen it happen , and it is usually with the better commercials . |