Example sentences of "seeing [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 2 | That is , whereas Lok is freed from quasi-metaphorical thought patterns and learns to use comparison , separating concepts and seeing them independently , the reader is shown the comparison first , then , with the deletion of like the peoples ' view is represented . |
| 3 | In our work we can not for a moment disregard them , yet we are never sure that we are seeing them clearly . |
| 4 | It is in weighing these up one against another — in balancing them and seeing them altogether cumulatively — that these criteria may become effective . |
| 5 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 6 | If any of them hinted afterwards that his wife might not be thrilled at seeing them again , he 'd say , ‘ You can tell her to bugger off any time . ’ |
| 7 | It seemed to Ruth , what her aunt had long suspected , that to part with loved ones while they are still living , with never a hope of seeing them again , was worse than losing them by death . |
| 8 | But even for the sake of seeing them again , I never longed to be back … . |
| 9 | We held on to our coats for fear of never seeing them again , and mingled with the doomed souls . |
| 10 | ‘ They are not so appealing that I relish the idea of seeing them again , ’ Murtach retorted . |
| 11 | Although you see them on film , it 's not the same as seeing them actually there . |
| 12 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 13 | It 's not me seeing them now — it 's Summerchild . |
| 14 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 15 | ‘ Have you gone speechless on me again ? ’ he murmured tauntingly as Cavell Fielding came forward from the restaurant 's extravagantly decorative entrance opposite them , a slight widening of her sapphire eyes the only surprise she evinced at seeing them together . |
| 16 | Since I had taken her from her people , I felt in some degree responsible for seeing them together again . |
| 17 | At that moment Belinda looked over her shoulder and , seeing them together , detached herself from the rest of the group and tramped through the dying bracken towards them . |
| 18 | Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again . |
| 19 | Jack grew dizzy as he thought of it , seeing them sitting with tall glasses on a shady patio and , strangely , seeing them too as they were now , untouched by the hand of time . |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't help your seeing me again ! ’ cried Tess , moving nervously away from him . |
| 21 | I needed your help , Claudia , and when I realised you 'd disappeared I knew you 'd try to leave without seeing me again . |
| 22 | ‘ But you knew that you had no intention of ever seeing me again . |
| 23 | They 're seeing me tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're seeing me now ! ’ she said . |
| 26 | She insisted on seeing me alone , and you know Shallot ! |
| 27 | ‘ It 'll be OK for you to go on seeing me there . |
| 28 | Instead , he 'd looked shocked and utterly horrified at seeing me still alive . |
| 29 | This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee . |
| 30 | They disappeared for hours to look at some rare book and Lionel insisted on seeing me home . ’ |