Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] seeing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right that 's , that 's , that 's lovely Ian anyway thanks very much for seeing me this evening erm well as I say I 'll go away and prepare some figures and then I 'll , I 'll see you what , what say Wednesday next week ? |
| 2 | Species of shrews that have poor eyesight and rely on established pathways to find their way about their territory often fall victim to pits that open up in their vicinity , running straight in without seeing them . |
| 3 | Yeah , it 's like the little ones , they the , the , the , erm , they handle all sorts , and when you comes actually down to seeing it on paper , you ke , it 's alright if they 're just counting it there in the hands and stuff . |
| 4 | I wanted to feel warmed by the love and laughter in those eyes , to have all my worries reduced to nothing again just by seeing him . |
| 5 | Just by seeing it . |
| 6 | We 're actually trying to let people have fun while they 're doing this , instead of maybe hectoring them erm we stand on enough picket lines as it is outside D I Y stores , so they 're probably fed up with seeing us there . |
| 7 | But the chambermaid Miss Kenton had left in attendance stood up upon seeing me and began to shake my father 's shoulder . |
| 8 | In earlier years , he may have smiled indulgently on seeing us and our makeshift tables with their colourless array of old books and goods . |
| 9 | After several years of thinking of sexism and heterosexism as different forms of oppression , we 've come back to seeing them as inextricably linked . |
| 10 | In summary , his presentation allows readers to suppose that the Pioneers were wrong in establishing , or attempting to establish , the producers ' societies as bodies separate from the consumers ' societies , and wrong even in seeing them as genuine co-operatives . |
| 11 | We are in the wrong position to see the flash of light as the sun erupts again , settling instead for seeing it emerge from behind the northward island as we paddle slowly in . |
| 12 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 13 | I could do the English and the intelligence tests , but I was hopeless at mental arithmetic : for some reason my mind would go blank whenever I tried to visualise numbers instead of seeing them written down . |
| 14 | Yet in some areas still , their skills are not appreciated ; they can be seen as trouble-makers who regard doctor as fellow colleagues instead of seeing them as bosses who are there to give orders . |
| 15 | And instead of seeing it as something God had ordained , we began to look at the exploitation of the poor by the rich in a political way , but using Christian concepts . |
| 16 | Clare 's newfound , short-term leisure meant that she now enjoyed cooking instead of seeing it as an added , rushed , three-times-a-day chore to fit in around earning her living . |
| 17 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 18 | And that 's , I think , important because it gives us some concept of how far we would have to go to get there , as it were , apart from seeing it . |
| 19 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 20 | Nick did n't send any shivers through her the way Jack Butler had but after he 'd kissed her softly goodbye and she was walking through Portman Square , she found herself looking forward to seeing him later . |
| 21 | But Ted was OK : I was looking forward to seeing him . |
| 22 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 23 | I am looking forward to seeing him in the French Open and hopefully he will win it this year ! |
| 24 | I am sorry to confess that I did not look forward to seeing him at all . |
| 25 | I should have liked to be able to look forward to seeing him , but he said he did n't know how the evening would turn out . ’ |
| 26 | She hoisted her umbrella to ward off the light drizzle that had started to fall , gave me a couple of twenty-pound notes , said she 'd look forward to seeing me on Friday , kissed my cheek , then went off to do her shopping . |
| 27 | Ramsay knew her by repute only and had been looking forward to seeing her in person . |
| 28 | In it , Elvis tells ‘ Dear Liz ’ how much he appreciates receiving her letters and looks forward to seeing her during a trip she planned to America in December . |
| 29 | He had really been looking forward to seeing her tonight . |
| 30 | They had looked forward to seeing her but when she came they did n't know what to say . |