Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the following three years , I was to see the keys again and , more often , the deeds of ownership to lost land . |
| 2 | I was to see the effect , in my own home , on my own children , that such tragedy could bring . |
| 3 | That Friday morning as we sat enjoying each other 's company and the fresh bread and pancakes , I was to see the rule practised once again . |
| 4 | Is that what it is– ’ Or if I was to see the doctor and my girlfriend happened to be seeing the doctor as well , this was just an excuse , according to them , for us to be together . |
| 5 | ‘ First , may I say how glad I was to see the honourable gentleman in the Government lobby last night , ’ Lang said . |
| 6 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 7 | If , in Lady Chatterley 's Lover , the scales were to fall from Connie 's eyes and she were to see the worship of Mellor 's phallus for what it is , a means of subordinating and oppressing women , she could free herself and develop her authentic will , ego and individuality . |
| 8 | He demurred at once , and she surmised that he was as keen to leave as she was to see the back of him . |
| 9 | So she was seeing the Colombians as the enemy . |
| 10 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 11 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 12 | Turakina behaved as if she was seeing the offworlder for the first time . |
| 13 | She said , as if she was seeing the possibility of doubt for the very first time , ‘ You arc the man from the pest control ? ’ |
| 14 | She felt a wire wool of beard on her chin , and realised she was seeing the world two-dimensionally . |
| 15 | Over the next few years we were to see the terminal in all its stages of construction on our various visits to Scapa Flow and we were to become very familiar with Flotta not only in the earlier days , but later when the terminal was operational and our crews began their real work of checking the large tankers . |
| 16 | And of course the , the main object of going there was to see the World Fair that was on that year . |
| 17 | Yet from Justin onwards , they were seeing the destinies of the empire mysteriously bound up with God 's purposes being worked out through his church . |
| 18 | It had been a hard year , the public felt Lauda had been ill done by , and everyone felt that they were seeing the apotheosis of one of the great drivers and the first signs of greatness in his natural successor , Alain Prost . |
| 19 | There was the brief glory of the 1820s , when Greece was the first part of south-eastern Europe to break free from the Turks , and high-minded liberals all over Europe thought they were seeing the rebirth of Periclean Athens . |
| 20 | He became the characters in Homer or the tragedies , and made his audience feel they were seeing the drama as well as listening to an interpretation . |
| 21 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was seeing the animals . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 25 | Endless cups of coffee helped a bit but what a relief it was to see the first pale streaks of dawn creeping across the sky . |
| 26 | They made friends with the families who stayed and who bought milk and eggs from them , and they said more than once how good it was to see the lights on across the river again . |
| 27 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 28 | Last time it was to see the new designs at the boutique . |
| 29 | He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him . |
| 30 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |