Example sentences of "to seeing [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout last season 's World Cup the rest of the world got used to seeing South Africans proudly parading their ‘ Springbok World Champions ’ banners . |
| 2 | We are all getting used to seeing bottle banks in our towns and at supermarkets . |
| 3 | She was looking forward to seeing Patrick Kelly . |
| 4 | The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages . |
| 5 | I am looking forward to seeing Brian Deane , I think he has more strings to his bow than Chapman . |
| 6 | ‘ People are more used to seeing BNFL vans or contractors ’ trucks running around , so when 10 vintage cars trundled past they were gobsmacked . |
| 7 | I refer to seeing paving stones being sawn and the person doing the job neither wearing goggles or a mask while being enveloped in a cloud of dust . |
| 8 | WE HAVE become used to seeing Thomas Keneally centre his novels on well-researched historical events , from the charge of Joan of Arc ( in the extraordinary Blood Red , Sister Rose of 1974 ) through the convict settlement of Australia , the American civil war and the negotiations that ended World War I to his Booker Prize-winner , Schindler 's Ark , set in Poland at the height of the holocaust , an unforgettable and moving book . |
| 9 | A terrified housemaid , eyed sternly by Mr Multhrop , admitted to seeing Sir Thomas in his room during the course of the evening . |
| 10 | People are used to seeing Paddy Montgomery at these meetings ; if Patrick Montgomery Lundy were suddenly to appear , questions would be asked . |