Example sentences of "seeing the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mahoney asked , seeing the colour drain from her cheeks . |
| 2 | After the trouble with the coal , Peter was afraid of seeing the Station Master again . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Jess stood paralysed , despair mounting inside , seeing the plank slide into position . |
| 5 | Nor do the home-based banks have any interest in seeing the peso collapse . |
| 6 | Er well weatherwise it certainly has you do n't go a day without seeing the sun shine , there 's hardly any rain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not all the time , of course , ’ she added hastily , seeing the frown crease Rory 's smooth forehead . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That had been as grievous a thing as seeing the head triumph ; that had caused the centuries of religious persecutions and wars . |
| 11 | The overall view is an aid to understanding , for example , seeing the grid pattern of streets of a medieval planned town , for instance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To Christina 's thinking it was a mess , but seeing the faraway look in Stephen 's eyes she knew he viewed it differently . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The view is actually equivalent to seeing the copper track pattern ‘ though ’ the board from the component side . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is strange , seeing the Union Flag there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Seeing the ice hold beneath their weight , the last of the Russian rearguard flung themselves upon the lake in thousands . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dr Peter Brunt was seeing the Queen Mother this morning , when he would determine how long she would remain in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary . |
| 23 | He had certainly lied about seeing the cottage light . |
| 24 | Ferrari also brought along Giacomo Modugno , an Italian Olympic Committee medical commission member who , as an eye specialist , was prepared to give evidence about Mansell 's difficulty in seeing the flag signal ordering him to stop . |
| 25 | He felt he knew very little about her present feelings , which were so malign toward him and unmapped that it was as if he were seeing the back side of the moon . |
| 26 | On the television front we are on the brink of seeing the franchise auction pigeons come home to roost . |
| 27 | Selecting a Ju88 — an aircraft of 4/LG I ( L1+CM ) flown by Lt. Reinhold Krause — he attacked from astern with three burst , seeing the starboard wing and engine catch fire . |
| 28 | Seeing the lark labour near its cloud |
| 29 | I tend to get to hear about them from seeing the Post Office . |
| 30 | Always insist on seeing the registration document . |