Example sentences of "seeing this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I remember seeing this plumpish girl , dressed in something dark moving towards me . |
| 2 | From school , Rudd joined Rolls-Royce in 1938 as an apprentice in the motor car division , seeing this as a stepping stone towards an ambition that was already formed . |
| 3 | It is a bit of a labour seeing this daft C movie last thing before Christmas , especially since it is based on the DC Comic series , which was beautifully drawn and imaginatively based on the Beauty and the Beast story . |
| 4 | ‘ Indeed , ma'am , ’ said Wilson politely , not seeing this had anything to do with her . |
| 5 | I had expressed concern that after the long journey , probably spent standing in the corridor , I might look rather haggard , so the wearing of a yashmak was suggested , especially as Leslie would be used to seeing this item of female camouflage in the souks and cafés of North Africa from Alexandria to Algiers . |
| 6 | You , sir , what reason do you have for seeing this project as worth following through ? ’ |
| 7 | Potential customers for freeze branding could well be put off by seeing this biased statement in a reputable magazine . |
| 8 | I am convinced that this is because the barbel are so conditioned to seeing this plastic larder pop through the surface and spread good things to eat along the bottom , they are waiting for it to happen . |
| 9 | The tremendous sense of liberation is in seeing this not as an obstacle to faith , a rock of doubt which blocks progress , but as a part of the essence of life itself . |
| 10 | Why are we seeing this lack of grace ? |
| 11 | Anybody seeing this operation in the modern bottling halls of Champagne houses today will find it difficult to imagine that it was in regular use a hundred years ago , yet the two pioneers of the à la glace system , Moët & Chandon and Perrier Jouët , both introduced the process in 1891 , independently of each other , and five years before it was patented by Walfart on 14 November 1896 . |
| 12 | I hope you are n't seeing this job as a temporary expedient . ‘ |
| 13 | It was common in Kenya for Masai to allow Kikuyu to cultivate a patch of ground within their grazing circuit in return for services rendered ; but administrators seeing this practice and not realizing its customary nature tried repeatedly to get rid of the Kikuyu and leave the Masai in undisputed possession of what they supposed to be their sole territory . |
| 14 | My initial impression , on seeing this guitar for the first time , was that Rockwood have tried very hard to steer away from total Strat clone , whilst keeping all the essential ingredients pretty much to the fore . |
| 15 | St. Peter , seeing this threat , banished the demons and Simon fell to his death . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ We are seeing this sort of thing more and more often . ’ |
| 17 | We insisted on seeing this letter and have never heard from him since . |
| 18 | Would she like seeing this golden college belle at her bedside ? |
| 19 | People have expected to pay later for much of what they have bought , seeing this as ‘ bills ’ rather than as debts . |
| 20 | However , do n't get carried away to the extent of seeing this as a purely legal problem . |
| 21 | Just inside the vestibule there was coconut matting , and seeing this Mum looked about then began to wipe her feet . |
| 22 | For obvious reasons I 'm not telling exactly where , but anyone seeing this can award themselves ten Brownie points ! |
| 23 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 24 | Well , I 'm looking forward to seeing this blessing . |
| 25 | Those interested in Provençal paintings should move on after seeing this show to the newly reopened Musée national des Monuments français in Paris , which is showing some of the same artists in an exhibition on Marseille until 5 July ( see p. 8 ) . |
| 26 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |
| 27 | A few Boards , seeing this as an essential part of their electricity service , expanded their contracting activities enthusiastically , while others left the business largely to private contractors . |
| 28 | James Haldane , when seeking the office of bailie of the regality of Lennox from the Duke of Montrose , hoped by that means to ‘ occasion … partys to imploy him at Edinburgh ’ , and doubtless he was not alone in seeing this connection . |
| 29 | Critics are seeing this new interest in Kahn as indicative of a public dislike for the superficialities of Post Modern architecture . |
| 30 | Any patient seeing this man would have to check his claims to be a doctor themselves . |