Example sentences of "[was/were] see [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 2 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 3 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 4 | He probably just assumed that you were seeing me in connection with my work . ’ |
| 5 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 6 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 7 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 8 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 9 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 10 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 11 | She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight . |
| 12 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 13 | I suppose it was seeing me in ‘ his ’ shirt . |
| 14 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 15 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
| 16 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 17 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 18 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 19 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |
| 20 | Unlike the others , she did n't rush to say how pleased she was to see him after all this time ; she did n't make polite small talk about Lucasta Redburn 's death . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I thought the idea was to see everybody in action first . ’ |
| 22 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |