Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] seeing " in BNC.
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1 | The proposals were due to be considered by Cabinet ten days later and ministers do not like seeing what they are to discuss plastered all over the press beforehand . |
2 | you 'll have to protect the dog cos he might not like seeing his carpet pulled up , mm |
3 | Slowly people began to realise it was not a miracle after all , but the reward for an enormous amount of hard work , planning and discipline which ensured they were the fittest and best-prepared England team ever , ; a very professional approach which saw them practising endlessly ; high-class line and length bowling , backed up by excellent fielding , which had the West Indian batsmen constantly under pressure ; sound batsmanship to build on the bowlers ' successes ; and a crackling team spirit fostered by Gooch which one could not remember seeing in an England team in years . |
4 | In spite of all my previous ‘ looks ’ I found one or two that I can not remember seeing before ! |
5 | I can imagine him so very clearly , from his photographs , his words , but I do not remember him myself — I should have , I was two years old — it 's strange that I can not remember seeing him bending over my cot , as they say he did , glass of brandy-and-soda in hand . |
6 | There was a light in her dark eyes that Julia could not remember seeing before her illness and yet there was sadness too . |
7 | Robert could not remember seeing him as disturbed as this . |
8 | Opposite them were two or three other characters Robert could not remember seeing before at the school . |
9 | Only she could not stop seeing the strange boy 's face . |
10 | Another 20 who can not face seeing the area have been invited to the British ambassador 's villa at Kakami . |
11 | Even the advent of the university had not done much to increase his sales , she considered shrewdly , since she could not recall seeing a single bookshelf in any of the homes of university staff which she had visited . |
12 | I can not recall seeing any other walkers when I climbed the Ben by the route I have described some thirty-odd years ago although the day was fine and the month May . |
13 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
14 | I can not bear seeing her again . |
15 | Although I was sceptical as to the Brighton affair , I could not help seeing that there was rather a look about Mr Wilson sometimes ; for instance when , as occasionally happened , his wife 's leg was too bad for her to go shopping and he went alone . |
16 | Tolkien could not help seeing a part of himself in Fëanor and Saruman , sharing their perhaps licit , perhaps illicit desire to ‘ sub-create ’ . |
17 | I could not help seeing that the amendments sketched on the blackboard had been executed ; the modified organs were in place . |
18 | We can not but be overwhelmingly impressed by what the Chinese have achieved in the country and elsewhere , but at the same time we can not help seeing the comic side of the rituals in which we find ourselves participating . |
19 | ‘ Because I never saw him before Monday and I have n't stopped seeing him since . |
20 | ‘ I do n't need seeing , ’ she said . |
21 | I do n't remember seeing any male skinhead hairstyle on a girl ( which does n't mean there were n't any ) . |
22 | I do n't remember seeing her . |
23 | Probably , most people have been doing this for ages , but I ca n't remember seeing it , so if it helps anyone , great . |
24 | Somebody , an entertainer himself , once said to me that his idea of a perfect talk show host was someone you do n't remember seeing at the end of the programme . |
25 | There had been a similar holder and brass chain in the parish room of his father 's Norfolk church but he could n't remember seeing one since . |
26 | I do n't remember seeing |
27 | I ca n't remember seeing me dad till I was five . |
28 | The landlord knows her well , but could n't remember seeing her that night . |
29 | She could n't remember seeing such a cheerful crowd queuing for the cinema , and she took pleasure in their high spirits ; but she was glad that she had n't gone to the pictures . |
30 | I do n't remember seeing one in the harbour either . ’ |