Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some parents , who as children may have been afraid of school or bored by it , may only see education as relevant if their children are finding education unthreatening . |
| 2 | There will be times during a good investigative session when they need to draw several quick diagrams perhaps , or they may suddenly see connections between things which they can not yet explain but need to indicate immediately . |
| 3 | A few weeks before it would have seemed inconceivable that she should ever see Hilda again , but now she almost looked forward to the meeting . |
| 4 | Lehzen made it a condition of her appointment that the princess should never see strangers except in her presence . |
| 5 | We should therefore see shields on their own as aniconic representations of the deity ; the shield motif in the frescoes at Knossos is a religious , not a military , symbol . |
| 6 | X/Open is in separate discussions with the UN over the organisation 's internal use of open systems , and there is speculation that X/Open 's involvement with the UN might eventually see X/Open president Geoff Morris being elected to the UN 's advisory board . |
| 7 | The central thesis is that " coding creates reality rather than simply reporting it " ; but to suggest that " simple reporting " is how one might normally see coding functioning in relation to reality is to presuppose a very naive view . |
| 8 | The Herald announced that Farnham people might soon see women tackling fires alongside their male comrades in the National Fire Service . |
| 9 | You 'll also see remnants of Dartmoor 's obsolete industries , warrening/rabbit breeding — and tin mining . |
| 10 | You might also see gadwall , Brent geese and Bewick 's swans . |
| 11 | Right we 'll now see chairman 's remarks which erm since Alan is not here has asked me to read . |
| 12 | I expect we 'll now see trade unionists and others appointed where appropriate . |
| 13 | The pain would return , she knew , cruel and cutting , but pride and hurt meant little compared to the fear that she might never see fitzAlan again . |
| 14 | Leonora watched the grey smudge of shoreline growing closer , knowing that once she was there this part of her life would be over , and she might never see Penry Vaughan again . |
| 15 | ‘ I might actually see Edward ? ’ |
| 16 | You 'll see Dustin 's acting , but you 'll never see Steve 's . ’ |
| 17 | Discussing the number of child cycling accidents , PC Dave Hogg told Darlington 's road safety forum last week that they 'd rather see children under ten pedalling on the pavement . |
| 18 | She could suddenly see years back , when her dad took her to smell the tar-bucket . |
| 19 | If she could only see Troy now , he would help her to decide ! |
| 20 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 21 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |
| 22 | She looked and looked at the place where the fire had been , searching for the future , but could only see ashes . |
| 23 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 24 | and that 's a bargain , and se you know these reps would come round selling this that and the other and if , you could only see samples after , would n't touch it with a barge pole like you know , yeah I 'll have that , that 's all but that 's because he had a good grounding |
| 25 | I think I 'd sooner see Angela Rippon , Those Were The Days , do n't you ? , on Sky |
| 26 | Out of the corner of his eye he could just see Dan Ashton , the road-gang foreman and union representative . |
| 27 | He could just see boxes , litter blowing in the wind and rats scavenging for food . |
| 28 | We could just see Lake Zwai and beyond it a wall of mountains on the far side of the Rift Valley . |
| 29 | She could just see Roman 's car and she was blinded by a rush of tears as she realised she would never again sit in it by his side . |
| 30 | He could just see Hasan , sitting , as usual , quite still , his hands resting lightly on the desk in front of him . |