Example sentences of "[coord] seeing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 2 | • Juggling the running of a house , keeping everyone well-fed and clothed , and seeing to the needs of a new baby make mothers excellent organisers . |
| 3 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 4 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 5 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 6 | Praising Durkheim , Eliot had written about and summarized Max Müller 's attitude ( largely based on Sanskrit philology ) , which looked at primitive religion chiefly through its myths , finding in primitive deities personifications of larger forces of nature and seeing in the primitive mind a sentiment of wonder at such forces , a basic intuition of the ‘ infinite ’ . |
| 7 | The people are sick and tired of seeing on the television , hearing on the radio and seeing in the press the fairy stories that the Secretary of State keeps preaching from the Dispatch Box . |