Example sentences of "was see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she was seeing the Colombians as the enemy . |
| 2 | The writer 's own experience was seeing the Progress car in the first post-war Illuminations of 1949 : sheer magic as it swept by , playing music while its myriad bulbs radiated heat and light . |
| 3 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 4 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 5 | The next thing I remember was seeing the face of a policeman above his yellow emergency jacket , who was reassuring me : I was all right . |
| 6 | Iggy Pop and the lippily ascendant Wonder Stuff aside , the only high point was seeing the pathetic Meat Loaf take umbrage at the traditional hail of plastic bottles . |
| 7 | He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him . |
| 8 | The thing that really motivated me was seeing the 1968 Olympics ; I saw Thommie Smith and thought , ‘ God , that 's it ! ’ |
| 9 | Behind her diamond eyes , Jezrael was seeing the plants she 'd maimed in the name of cultures . |
| 10 | At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 11 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 12 | It was seeing the animals . |
| 13 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 14 | Turakina behaved as if she was seeing the offworlder for the first time . |
| 15 | By now my man was seeing the ball like a melon . |
| 16 | She said , as if she was seeing the possibility of doubt for the very first time , ‘ You arc the man from the pest control ? ’ |
| 17 | She felt a wire wool of beard on her chin , and realised she was seeing the world two-dimensionally . |
| 18 | He was seeing the Rorim as it should be , without the threat of ruin hanging over it — though tomorrow these same people would be stinting themselves to eke out their supplies through the winter . |
| 19 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 20 | One of the chief pleasures was seeing the reunion of many people who had first-hand experience of travelling or working on the Line , and met against after many years . |
| 21 | Dr Peter Brunt was seeing the Queen Mother this morning , when he would determine how long she would remain in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary . |
| 22 | " The thing that impressed me most was seeing the pros in trouble get out of trouble , " he says . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 24 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 25 | Heartless thieves stole the pushchair of two-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer Thomas Wright while he was seeing the doctor . |
| 26 | He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made . |
| 27 | He was not persuaded by the argument that the only way the inquiry could be properly conducted was to see the whole picture before making any final decision on an individual case . |
| 28 | My main objective , however , was to see the regalia of St Stephen which have played so large a part , albeit symbolic , in Hungarian history and which have gone on such varied walkabout . |
| 29 | Over the following three years , I was to see the keys again and , more often , the deeds of ownership to lost land . |
| 30 | It was the nineteenth century 's most distinctive contribution to building types and that century was to see the creation of the majority of the most memorable and pleasing railway stations . |