Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 7 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 8 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 9 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 10 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 11 | Well I 'll be contacting them in the next fortnight er if and to make be able to pass on my card , I 'll leave you two cards so that they , they know to expect a phone call from myself . |
| 12 | Moving to a different part of the country , for example , or even a chance meeting , may be the trigger to reactivate a relationship with someone in this outermost circle , thus drawing them into the second category . |
| 13 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 14 | Starving her until the next evening , he coaxed her with pony nuts into a stall which Raimundo used for branding and saddling bigger horses , which was so narrow she could n't turn round . |
| 15 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 16 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |
| 17 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
| 18 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 19 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 20 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 21 | As Hill ( 1983 , p. 124 ) observes , the ‘ attacks on Quangos have obscured , rather than illuminated , the serious issue of how ministerial patronage might be replaced by alternative selection procedures , and how these bodies might be made more accountable , without losing that very semi-independence which was a major reason for establishing them in the first place ’ . |
| 22 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 23 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 24 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 25 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 26 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 27 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 28 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | I shall quite enjoy taming you over the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 30 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |