Example sentences of "to see [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I intend to see that it gets it . ’ |
| 2 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 3 | Grumble as they might about the Masai 's unbudging attachment to their traditional ways , many administrators , particularly in the later years , came to see that it had its advantages . |
| 4 | ‘ The ball belongs to us , ’ whined Willie Allan 's letter , ‘ and if it does n't turn up we will take steps to see that it does . |
| 5 | However , I use Guitarist Readers ' Ads myself , as do most of the staff here , so we know just how successful they can be ; of course that also means we can see where the service can be improved and we will endeavour to see that it does … |
| 6 | I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination . |
| 7 | You have a job to do , the pump must work , it 's your job to see that it does . |
| 8 | I once garnered a useful titbit about Indian life from a documentary about the highest balloon flight in the world because I happened to see that it took place in the centre of the Indian sub-continent where the air can be particularly still . |
| 9 | It is not necessary to reach agreement with Dr Bryan 's moral scheme in order to see that it involves quite a different moral emphasis from that projected on to the 1930s by post-war nostalgia . |
| 10 | But not to see that it exists shows a surprising ( and therefore interesting ) blindness . |
| 11 | He planned it , and Damian Flint was going to see that it happened . |
| 12 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 13 | Expecting to find a look of mockery on his face , she was disconcerted to see that it held nothing of the sort . |
| 14 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
| 15 | I think , I think when your reading it , I mean the , the female always gets her man and he 's always perfect and er , I mean real life is just is n't like that , so its nice to see that it works out for someone . |
| 16 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 17 | I know what 's going on , I do n't like it , and I 'm making it my business to see that it stops . " |
| 18 | Now I was beginning to see that it did n't necessarily have to be that way . |
| 19 | erm , all I can say is I 'm glad to see that it 's stopped being referred to as women 's troubles , you know and we 're actually bringing it out to the forefront . |
| 20 | There is a wish to see a move from residential care to home care and , and home help and community based care , but to see that it 's done in an orderly fashion which does n't destabilize the market that 's out there , and does n't put at risk the care of elderly people who are already using those existing homes . |
| 21 | Bloody man , I do n't want to see that it 's got three on it . |
| 22 | If in doubt , one compares another specimen with the type in order to see if it belongs to the same species . |
| 23 | When we got the rope tied across , Ivy my daughter , she walk across the ice to see if it hold her . |
| 24 | The occasional hairline crack in external brickwork need not be of any significance , but should be observed over a period to see if it extends or widens . |
| 25 | ‘ We will be studying this programme very closely to see if it crosses over that legal line . |
| 26 | Mildred held out her arm to see if it had begun to reappear but it had n't . |
| 27 | Lawton ended the conversation saying he would be back ‘ tomorrow ’ [ Friday ] to see if it had been put right . |
| 28 | After days of coalition building , Benazir Bhutto could only wait to see if it had paid off . |
| 29 | And then she 'd peep her head under the curtain to see if it had gone |
| 30 | Carrying hot metal , or tripping blindfold between red-hot plough shares , or plunging the arm in boiling water were the usual tests , though the accused might be flung into a pond to see whether he sank or not , or forced to eat an ounce of bread or cheese to see if it stuck in the gullet ! |