Example sentences of "seeing [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Anyone seeing me train knows that I revel in preparation and competition . |
| 32 | It 's seeing me look like an old hag first thing in the morning and not minding ! |
| 33 | And then what really bugs those people is seeing me keep catching up with them . |
| 34 | The warden at the tiem remembers seeing someone like Eila , but they could find no record of her name . |
| 35 | There was a good crowd round the 11th attracted by the possibility of seeing someone win the Bentley . |
| 36 | And because I took the trouble to save this life of yours I insist on seeing you recover properly and make full use of it . |
| 37 | ‘ I look forward to seeing you perform , ’ he said . |
| 38 | I get my pleasure from seeing you climax . ’ |
| 39 | Otherwise their wonderful staff seemed the same as ever , headed by Mrs Julie Hughes who runs the place so well ; Miss Barbara Hopkins , who has been there since Forest Mere opened , and is invaluable in seeing you have every comfort in your bedroom . |
| 40 | It was too confrontational , she realised as soon as she had said it , seeing something spark in his eyes , the instinctive , age-old masculine response to the sort of rejection men would always interpret as a challenge . |
| 41 | He reports seeing one crop of heavy land barley harvested last weekend . |
| 42 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 43 | But , I do n't ever remember seeing him sit down to have any . |
| 44 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 45 | She stood for hours behind him , seeing him sketch , then stop and change what he had drawn . |
| 46 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 47 | Seeing him return so early from the fields , his wife , who was an energetic , hard-working woman , called out : " What ! |
| 48 | It is about a guy struggling from one crisis to the next and part of the appeal is that he is not particularly likeable , so you do n't mind seeing him get a rough deal , but like an awkward Grandfather you hopethings will turn out OK . |
| 49 | Seeing him wreak such havoc among a supposedly invincible foe , the Elves within the shrine were heartened . |
| 50 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 51 | Turning , seeing him like that , Fei Yen caught her breath . |
| 52 | Paul loves seeing him like this . |
| 53 | We have had heroes in our time at Crystal Palace but there was only one Albert Harry and those who had the pleasure and privilege of seeing him play were lucky indeed . |
| 54 | Hugh 's last scruples about seeing him cut out of the will were satisfied by writing him a personal letter of appeal . |
| 55 | ‘ Ah , but you need not do that now , Neil , ’ she answered him feverishly , seeing him slip from her . |
| 56 | ‘ Come on , Will , ’ said Zach , seeing him hang back . |
| 57 | So intense was her relief at seeing him come that she stood stock-still in the doorway . |
| 58 | ‘ Is she all right ? ’ she asked , seeing him come down alone . |
| 59 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 60 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |