Example sentences of "see [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scanned the print , seeing that it echoed more or less exactly the story Swansborough had just told him , then turned his attention to the photograph alongside — three people , obviously dressed for leisure . |
| 2 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 3 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , he said that he wanted to do something useful with his life , seeing that it had been given back to him when he had n't expected it . |
| 5 | I intend to see that it gets it . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You have a job to do , the pump must work , it 's your job to see that it does . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But not to see that it exists shows a surprising ( and therefore interesting ) blindness . |
| 15 | He planned it , and Damian Flint was going to see that it happened . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Expecting to find a look of mockery on his face , she was disconcerted to see that it held nothing of the sort . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I know what 's going on , I do n't like it , and I 'm making it my business to see that it stops . " |
| 22 | Now I was beginning to see that it did n't necessarily have to be that way . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Bloody man , I do n't want to see that it 's got three on it . |
| 26 | We have already seen that it rejects any notion that God is changed . |
| 27 | We have seen that it turns a state of arbitrary polarisation into one polarised perpendicular to the crystal 's optical axis . |
| 28 | We have already seen that it leaves unexplained one prominent feature of judicial practice — the attitude judges take toward statutes and precedents in hard cases — except on the awkward hypothesis that this practice is designed to deceive the public , in which case the public has not consented to it . |
| 29 | It can also be seen that it provides a deeper cause than that supplied by ordinary , everyday reasoning . |
| 30 | If we look at industrial work it can be seen that it tends to be too much dominated by part tasks in that the worker is not involved with the delivery of the whole product but with a small component of it and even , at times , with a particular operation on that small component . |