Example sentences of "see [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see them is to believe in love , real old-fashioned romantic love . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't really want to see them being killed do we ? ’ |
| 3 | But it was — and still is — an affront to those who respected the great classic guitars , having to see them being used as dispensable stage props ! |
| 4 | to look at er , a P R job about changing the way those resources are used so that they 're used in the way that 's been talked away , er , talked about tonight which is way that clearly many wo , many women want to see them being used . |
| 5 | The only reliable way to see them was to pass in front of the building and turn left into the road to the cemetery : from that side some of them could be seen craning out of the windows and waving . |
| 6 | Nor does the Chancellor demand free elections for East Germans immediately , his aides say , but would first like to see them be given greater personal freedom and basic human rights . |
| 7 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 8 | I quickly discovered that in her view it did n't have one , and that the only reason she had agreed to see me was to get this across once and for all . |
| 9 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 10 | ‘ I want really to die , and I want John Major to see I 'm dying because of his and Norman Lamont 's fault , ’ she told reporters . |
| 11 | He extracted the constant characteristics of their work to see which were considered essential to a profession . |
| 12 | There were two engines , ‘ Carlisle ’ and ‘ No 1 ’ , and we would look eagerly to see which was heading the train today . |
| 13 | so it is erm something of a step forward , erm we 've had material in the past which you may have seen which was recorded from the telly , a couple of years ago in nineteen ninety |
| 14 | The light which fell on their brown skins was dappled , as in the television adverts she had seen which were set in jungles . |
| 15 | She has seen who 's pulling the strings . |
| 16 | yeah , wait , slow down just walk , walk Kilburn okay whoops have you seen they 're gon na come up in a minute |
| 17 | To have seen it is associated with a more positive attitude towards SSE , not to have seen it with a neutral attitude ; to recall it well is associated with an even more positive attitude towards SSE , not to recall it well with only a mildly positive attitude ; to associate changes with its use with a very positive attitude ; not to do so with only a mildly positive attitude . |
| 18 | When he had seen it being done by publicans a mallet and a stake had been used , but all he had was a rusty bracket . |
| 19 | having found themselves for no good reason sitting together : Liz and Alix discovered that both came from Yorkshire , and that neither played lacrosse , nor had ever seen it being played , and Esther joined the discussion by volunteering that she had herself managed to avoid playing netball for the past three years on the grounds that she was too small . |
| 20 | It would help , of course , if someone had seen it being dumped , but I 'm afraid that even if someone did — ‘ |
| 21 | I 've never seen one I 've never seen it being used . |
| 22 | I would have left had I not seen he was wearing something I had n't seen on him before , and had to ask him about it , certain I knew what the answer would be . |
| 23 | When last seen he was wearing blue jeans , a cream sweatshirt , blue padded jacket and black shoes . |
| 24 | ( When last seen he was struggling . ) |
| 25 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 26 | He 's seen what 's going on and five years is it ? |
| 27 | That 's right , yeah , cos I mean he 's , he 's certainly sort of , even though he 's been sort of prisoner , I mean , he 's seen what 's going on and , and he 's had what five years of it ? |
| 28 | Yeah and while I 've seen what 's doing it |
| 29 | Have n't you seen what 's happening in Germany and the rest of Europe ? |
| 30 | My thoughts rippled out to the airport , then to the bus to Chinchero , to the large numbers of people who were there , who must have seen what was going on , who did nothing . |