Example sentences of "[was/were] see [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
2 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
3 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
4 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
5 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
6 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
7 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
8 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |