Example sentences of "was see [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against that there 'll be seventeen percent of this population was seeing home-helps , five percent was seeing social workers . |
| 2 | I was seeing trails and lights from the blue packet 's passing even after she brought it back down . |
| 3 | TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating . |
| 4 | She was as fearless as the Wooldridge boys who involved her in all their mischief , but sometimes Anna would stand and stare , as if she was seeing things that others could n't see . |
| 5 | The first time i spotted a puffin I thought I was seeing things . |
| 6 | As she was seeing things in the wake of her Paris win , she plans to compete for three or four more years before having a second child and giving up the tournament scene . |
| 7 | He was seeing things . |
| 8 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 9 | She was seeing mysteries where there were none , she told herself irritably . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was seeing signs advertising ‘ Blogg 's Beer ’ that led East Enders to immortalise the name Bloggs as the Cockney equivalent of Mr Everyman . |
| 11 | He was seeing men with one shoe in his sleep these days . |
| 12 | Boy watched all of this as if he was seeing fragments of one , continuous and baffling programme . |
| 13 | ‘ Good God in heaven , I thought I was seeing ghosts ! ’ |
| 14 | He did n't want to push her away , but he was getting close to his limit ; his blood was starting to pound in his ears and he was seeing haloes around all of the lights outside . |
| 15 | It was to see houses on expensive sites rise constantly higher , the consequent birth of the ‘ lift ’ or ‘ elevator ’ , and in the 1880s the construction of the first ‘ skyscrapers ’ in the United States . |
| 16 | A later generation was to see Cistercians sent out as missionaries , especially among the heretics of the Languedoc ; and the wandering preacher — a very familiar figure in the twelfth century — became in the thirteenth a Franciscan or a Dominican friar . |
| 17 | The beginning of the fifteenth century , however , was to see changes in attitudes and practices . |
| 18 | Not so much the opposition — what shook me up was to see children being used in the front line by protestors . |
| 19 | Incidentally , how nice it was to see Parks keeping wicket for Hampshire . |
| 20 | After each film was seen subjects had to decide whether they had seen the film section before or not and give a rating of their confidence in their decision . |
| 21 | After each film was seen subjects had to decide whether they had seen that precise film section before or not , making the response either ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ . |