Example sentences of "[vb pp] sight [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had caught sight of it only once , from the top of a bus , but she knew , from watching television , from looking at pictures in her mother 's magazines , what it must be like . |
| 2 | If Nicholson had strolled down Sunset Strip , he would have caught sight of Dean at Googies or one of the other coffee joints where Dean would meet with Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper . |
| 3 | In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him that is formless . |
| 4 | Karelius hoped he had not caught sight of him . |
| 5 | I 'd caught sight of him in the distance from time to time all afternoon , but now when I wanted him his red hair was n't anywhere around . |
| 6 | Since he had caught sight of the Summoner , he had not liked to watch the resettlers pouring through into Utah , knowing what it was they were really following . |
| 7 | He stared eagerly about the room in search of the prettiest faces , but instead caught sight of Lieutenant Harry Webster , one of his own British aides , who was hurrying across the dance floor . |
| 8 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 9 | It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . " |
| 10 | I wanted to revisit the place where I had first caught sight of Jean-Claude years ago . |
| 11 | He had first caught sight of her riding in a ploughed field beyond the barbed wire perimeter of the air base . |
| 12 | There was a third thing : he had caught sight of a superior officer : John Coffin . |
| 13 | She followed , trying to spot a public phone , and she had just caught sight of one at the corner of the building when he came out of the office , a key in his hand . |
| 14 | And yet she had felt something , some quick negative flicker at his casual reference to the promise he had made Emily , just as she had felt that uneasy dart inside her when she had caught sight of them earlier , coming up the path together . |
| 15 | Isabel did n't have to look around to know he had caught sight of her over-tunic , still reposing on the chest . |
| 16 | One week there had been fifty fridge doors outside his office , another week forty or fifty bicycle frames , although Robert had not so far caught sight of a single chain , tyre , wheel or handlebar . |
| 17 | The small boy had just caught sight of his cousin , who went to Cranborne School . |
| 18 | ‘ Has anyone caught sight of banners ? ’ |
| 19 | She 'd been browsing in a bookshop after buying a bedtime book for Kirsty when she 'd suddenly caught sight of the clock on the wall and seen , to her horror , that it was nearly five o'clock . |
| 20 | It was as she raised her eyes again that Silvia suddenly caught sight of Guido . |
| 21 | In spite of her earlier misgivings at finding David in the pool , Rachel , still mindful of his pleasure when he had caught sight of her , soon began to enjoy herself and was disappointed when all too soon David blew the whistle again and said it was time to get out of the water . |
| 22 | What the , I believe committees have never had and least of all Mr papers produced on behalf of Mr have never had a serious rigorous objective assessment of the vacancy situation of the future which first of all starts from issue a rolling programme of refurbishments that we have n't really seen sight of the of the implications of that on the number of vacancies . |
| 23 | Subsequently , their Lordships have had sight of the approved transcript of the judgment which corresponds in all material respects with the report considered in argument . |
| 24 | as if he had had sight of publishers ' replies to the Sunday Telegraph questionnaire , Tim Waterstone warned readers that the book trade had ‘ an astonishing capacity for self-pity and self-destruction — ignore publishers ’ gloom … |
| 25 | ‘ I have had sight of the manuscript , ’ Mr Malik was saying . |
| 26 | So you have n't had sight of this before today ? |
| 27 | The Great Tower of Magdalen College has been one of Oxford 's best known sights since the fifteenth century . |
| 28 | In November , Edward was given sight of a letter from Haushofer — he signed it ‘ A ’ — written to the duke . |
| 29 | The fear that he 'd be denied sight of the sanctum at the top of the stairs spurred him on , his body doing its ragged best to accommodate his ambition . |
| 30 | This is because government has never lost sight of the primacy of production , and has been able to avoid excessive borrowing to pay for it — in Cameroun because of the availability of oil , and in Kenya as a result of the low-key transfer of assets into African hands without any disruption in production . |