Example sentences of "[modal v] see what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might erm I might see what the sleeve 's like , I might er er wait and see how much wool I 've got |
| 2 | If you do n't press your arrow you 'll see what a mess you 've created in your document ! |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll see what the police 'ave to say about it , ’ he said , putting it in his pocket . |
| 4 | Go into the art galleries along the Normandy coast and you 'll see what the local painters liked to paint , over and over again : the view north . |
| 5 | So we 'll see what the Eyecron does . |
| 6 | We 'll see what the village has to add . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll see what the fruit cup 's like . ’ |
| 8 | Now we 'll see what the government does in response to er all their friends who are going bankrupt in the Lloyds er cos er that , in that scandal , on the one hand you 've got the government trying to save its neck with its forty four MPs who 've had their , had their hand in the till at the same that they 're doing that , they wo n't actually meet the just demands of people who 've worked all their lives to actually have some sort of security in the future , and that 's the ol er sort of double standards they 're gon na try and er and use to get off the hook on that one because they owe people in this country a decent , we should have the right to a decent pension and security , employment and er with this , this campaign , we should be , we should be concentrating on as a major issue for this union in the forthcoming year . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll see what the garage says . |
| 10 | We 'll see what the cardiothoracic guy has to say . ’ |
| 11 | well again we 'll , we 'll see what the time is like wo n't we ? |
| 12 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 13 | Now , let's see what the pair of you have selected . |
| 14 | ‘ Let's see what the management have to say ! |
| 15 | Let's see what the newspapers have to say ! ’ |
| 16 | Food is highly expensive and you could see what a hard time people had been through . |
| 17 | Even Nutty could see what an apathetic beast he was , and her heart contracted suddenly at the thought of their four stupid old horses going back to the knacker 's . |
| 18 | If only she could see what an act it was , how scared Lucy was now feeling deep inside . |
| 19 | When he played the film back at normal speed , which then makes the birds appear in slow motion , he could see what the birds were actually doing . |
| 20 | He could see what the police were trying to do . |
| 21 | Cardiff moved to join them … and at last he could see what the others were seeing . |
| 22 | Within a few seconds , her eyes had compensated , and she could see what the Doctor meant . |
| 23 | They should all get up at five in the morning , then they 'd see what the world looked like without them . |
| 24 | I 'd see what the place was like , I thought , and approach the camp from the south — that is , from the village . |
| 25 | If you look back at it you will see what a transformation has already taken place . |
| 26 | The artistic eye , for example , will see what the pedestrian and clinically-minded eye does not . |
| 27 | ‘ In the next few months we will see what the public think we should spend our money on , as we look at the results of a survey . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We 'll go round , ’ said Simon , ‘ a couple more times , just so you can see what a long way down it is , and then , when we get right up there , right to the top , I 'm going to chuck you out . ’ |
| 29 | I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn . |
| 30 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |