Example sentences of "[pron] visit " in BNC.

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1 It is now the 6th September and my visits round the Commando units 3 , 4 , 6 and 45 Royal Commando , not forgetting French Commando , have made it clear to me the large number of casualties in this campaign .
2 During my visits to Cuba I have seen how important for the country 's economy and how well managed the bagasse-based paper industry is .
3 What I saw on my visits in 1982 illustrated just some of the health problems we faced .
4 ‘ I know from my visits to Northern Ireland and discussions with members of the trade union movement , that there is a real and genuine desire for the Labour Party to organise in Northern Ireland . ’
5 The car park was so full that upon my visits to the hospital I now parked across the road in a garden centre .
6 Whilst waiting to go to Spring Harvest my visits to church became more regular and I began to realise the truth of God 's Word .
7 She lived in a first-floor council flat with her husband , Alex , who was admitted to hospital as an emergency with a gangrenous left foot three weeks after my visits began .
8 On my visits to schools as a member of the Kingman Committee , I discovered that often the English department 's description of its syllabus would explicitly state that children should not be taught the definition of grammatical terms .
9 In my visits to schools as a member of the Kingman Committee , I was impressed on a number of occasions by the imaginative use of word processing in the classroom .
10 Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door .
11 Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company .
12 It was made even stronger by my visits to his home and my increasing understanding of his own way of life .
13 On orders from the new Earl , my visits to the house were to be permitted only if I agreed to be supervised .
14 The combination of the move and the reassuring presence of the Scats was successful , as they began to accept my visits , although they do remain somewhat ‘ edgy ’ if anyone else enters the fish room .
15 Both seem to crop up with predictable regularity on my visits to this part of the world .
16 I varied the days and the times of my visits so as to catch this resourceful woman at her different occupations , for example making the wild boar and hind sausages , for which she was renowned in the neighbourhood , and the tarts filled with medlars that grew against the wall of her stable .
17 And of course I am not an unworldly man — the Earl , my brother , whom I 'm sure you will meet , will assure you that I am , by his standards , too interested in confirming and enlarging the wealth of the estates — and indeed on my visits to Egypt and Turkey and the New World I have , I may say , made a purchase here , an investment there … ’
18 As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities .
19 A depressing feature of my visits to Rhodesia arose from my firm instructions to negotiate only with Mr Smith and to avoid receiving protests or demonstrations from any quarter .
20 On the other hand , on one of my visits I was at a meeting when I heard some commotion outside and asked what it was .
21 I continued my visits to Miss Havisham for almost a year .
22 Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least .
23 So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me .
24 On my visits I watched his development with delight but the occasion which stays in my mind was the following Christmas Day , a year from his arrival .
25 This help is being offered during my visits to see one of our children who is attending the same school for one day a week .
26 My visits to the church are to set an example to the brute population of Chiguana .
27 Crilly does not feel alienated by my visits to the Heath , though he confesses to missing me by day and he is usually at home when I return .
28 Always on my visits to Kingston I am treated with courtesy and consideration .
29 Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at .
30 At the time of my visits there had already been considerable changes in terms of staffing and resources in line with advisers ' recommendations .
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