Example sentences of "but i [vb mod] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know if a lens comes off like , one of the mums has said , oh they do n't charge anything to put it back in , but I might see if I can erm charge them . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're all pretty short of that , I 'm afraid sir , but I 'll see what I can do . ’ |
| 3 | Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that |
| 4 | Doctor Volkov is off duty today , but I 'll see if I can check through the files in case . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But I 'll see you tonight . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not sure if I 'll still be here tomorrow , as air traffic is functioning normally and I have some urgent matters to attend to back in Hong Kong , but I 'll see you on Friday anyway . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But I 'll see you do n't suffer for this , Ellen . |
| 8 | right , well we 'll sort , we 'll sort something out , but I 'll see if Winnie 's , I 'll see if Winnie 's available . |
| 9 | in the window half and I wish I knew which half this is it 's all rather complicated , but I 'll see |
| 10 | But I 'll see if I can find . |
| 11 | Erm what I do need , but I 'll see how expensive they are , a lettuce but I can go out and buy a lettuce anyway erm |
| 12 | ‘ My forest duty calls — but I shall see thee again — thou hast my word ’ . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was a tiredness resulting from the previous 14 pitches , but I could see no way of free climbing it at less than E5 , and I was n't good enough for that , not now . |
| 14 | It was something that had to be said but I could see that Aunt Louise did not like it , or even accept the idea . |
| 15 | but I could see no special contact between them . |
| 16 | I pressed my head close against one comer of the barred window trying to see who was speaking , but I could see no-one . |
| 17 | It was too cold to push my face far out of my sleeping bag but I could see the yellow damp stain , like a map , on the wall opposite , and the little nest of cobwebs in a comer of the ceiling . |
| 18 | But I could see with my inner eye the form of my Lord Krishna , seated before Arjuna in the chariot on the battlefield of Kurukshetra , and I heard the sublime thoughts , and this filled my eyes with tears of joy and love . ' ’ |
| 19 | Her breasts were covered now , but I could see the shape of the aureoles through the wet fabric . |
| 20 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 21 | But I could see he looked sad as he added , ‘ I think it 'll be fer the best fer all of us . ’ |
| 22 | I would have loved to touch them to see what they felt like but I could see out of the corner of my eye that I was being watched . |
| 23 | I admired Venables , his flamboyant style and attitude , but I could see the dangers in the temptations of life in London and I regretfully turned down the move . |
| 24 | But I could see he was perfectly serious . |
| 25 | If he had been close to the cliff I would not have been able to see him , but I could see the whole section of shoreline , and there was no boat there . |
| 26 | Ewen 's were wide , injured , unbelieving ; Neil 's stony , but I could see the effort that kept them level . |
| 27 | Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well |
| 28 | The others looked at him almost in disbelief , but I could see that he had been thinking very carefully . |
| 29 | But I could see I had lost his attention . |
| 30 | We smiled and talked politely , but I could see the anger in his black eyes . |