Example sentences of "seeing the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mahoney asked , seeing the colour drain from her cheeks . |
| 2 | I do not think the compulsion to write about foreign places can be very closely compared to a painter 's sensuous delight in new light , new forms , new colours , Monet seeing the Cap d'Antibes in blue and rose , Turner seeing the bright watery Venetian light in Venice , Gauguin in Tahiti . |
| 3 | After the trouble with the coal , Peter was afraid of seeing the Station Master again . |
| 4 | ‘ The political situation in FIFA , at the moment , is such that we have to be very careful of not seeing the majority move towards that idea . ’ |
| 5 | Jess stood paralysed , despair mounting inside , seeing the plank slide into position . |
| 6 | Nor do the home-based banks have any interest in seeing the peso collapse . |
| 7 | Er well weatherwise it certainly has you do n't go a day without seeing the sun shine , there 's hardly any rain . |
| 8 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 9 | Not all the time , of course , ’ she added hastily , seeing the frown crease Rory 's smooth forehead . |
| 10 | Seeing the Man approach Creggan pulled away and with one final lunge of his beak at the flesh hopped back and up on to the branch across his cage . |
| 11 | I was in the office then , having given up on seeing the McLaren girl again . |
| 12 | Between that and the idea of seeing the McLaren girl , it sounded better and better and finally I got the Mexican boy , who was out front again , and sent him after Mr. Mendez . |
| 13 | They broke into a run , seeing the Tree Spirits directly ahead of them ; a pouring , changing , blurring mass of russet and green ; a sweep of autumn tapestry , moving and reaching and sweeping through the forest after the giant . |
| 14 | Looking forward to seeing the Sunderland result . |
| 15 | That had been as grievous a thing as seeing the head triumph ; that had caused the centuries of religious persecutions and wars . |
| 16 | The overall view is an aid to understanding , for example , seeing the grid pattern of streets of a medieval planned town , for instance . |
| 17 | The policeman , seeing the expiry date on the cartons of tinned milk , promptly issued a summons against the Jordanian manager for selling milk which was unfit for human consumption . |
| 18 | To Christina 's thinking it was a mess , but seeing the faraway look in Stephen 's eyes she knew he viewed it differently . |
| 19 | I had stopped seeing the nightmare shape when I shut my eyes but every so often the pigeon stirred just enough to keep me awake . |
| 20 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 21 | Gordon Durie stole down the right and seeing the defences lack of organisation , he blasted in a low pass which McCoist drove home first time . |
| 22 | The prince her husband was undesirous of seeing the lady Anne . |
| 23 | The nodes or links point to text blocks , but the semantic net can be seen without necessarily seeing the text blocks . |
| 24 | The view is actually equivalent to seeing the copper track pattern ‘ though ’ the board from the component side . |
| 25 | The writer 's own experience was seeing the Progress car in the first post-war Illuminations of 1949 : sheer magic as it swept by , playing music while its myriad bulbs radiated heat and light . |
| 26 | It is strange , seeing the Union Flag there . |
| 27 | Seeing the University Rugby Club I would , I would have eh ! |
| 28 | He had recalled the screaming gulls under the cliffs ; the staring eyes of the priest , the strange sensation of sinking a blade into his white flesh and seeing the life ebb from him . |
| 29 | Seeing the ice hold beneath their weight , the last of the Russian rearguard flung themselves upon the lake in thousands . |
| 30 | Hearing these words and seeing the speaker ride boldly toward him , the tiger was so alarmed that he turned tail and bolted into the forest . |