Example sentences of "[modal v] see [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 Besides , Edouard should see for himself the vineyards and plantations there : they were doing well , Jean-Paul said proudly .
2 The Picts could see for themselves the benefits and in doing so , the Romans hoped , would cease their war-like activities and come to heel .
3 After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house .
4 The Stage I V8 was fitted with restrictors behind the carbs to ‘ strangle ’ the power down to comply with type approval regulations If you remove the carbs you will see behind them the restrictor ‘ plug ’ with three smaller holes in it Sometimes they pull out and sometimes they need breaking up with a chisel ( after removing the manifold ) This will give you quite a considerable increase in power , so watch the roadholding !
5 From the architectural viewpoint the greatest importance of this site , now so excellently opened up and preserved , is that it has preserved for us a provincial Roman city at a certain point in time — A.D. 79 — so that we can see for ourselves the buildings in which such citizens of the empire lived .
6 In practice the latter method is preferred by most journalists because they can see from whom the information originally came .
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