Example sentences of "[was/were] see he [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time .
2 He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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