Example sentences of "[v-ing] them for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 4 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 5 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 7 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 8 | The debate will centre on alternative clauses : one outlawing all experiments on embryos from the moment of conception , the other ( the Warnock majority 's view ) allowing them for the first 14 days . |
| 9 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 10 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 11 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 12 | One of the brigade 's proudest possessions is a letter from King George V , thanking them for the part they played in saving the Royal Train during the disastrous fire in the Works in 1933 , when £30,000 worth of damage was caused . |
| 13 | It 's understandable that they can admire academics , but that 's not quite the same as loving them for the person they are . ’ |
| 14 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 15 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 16 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 17 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 18 | We 're ignoring them for the moment . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm growing them for the wedding , they 'll have to get cut because I break them . |
| 20 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 21 | It 's normally a place for quiet reflection in the midst of the commercial centre of Edinburgh , but this morning it 's full of books – boxes and boxes of them wherever you look – and people sorting them for the annual Christian Aid Book Sale . |
| 22 | The Wantage white horses swim club are off to the Palace tomorrow … that 's the Crystal one … world number one Mark Foster is coaching them for the day … |
| 23 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 24 | She picked up the phone and reached reception , asking them for the phone number of the Dublin National Gallery . |
| 25 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 26 | There may in fact be some differences in these time intervals and in other pathogenetic factors between Kock pouches and pelvic pouches , but in view of the general clinical similarities between the RP syndromes in these two forms of pouch ( Table V ) , we have felt justified in combining them for the purposes of our analysis . |
| 27 | At present , Akeakamai can understand sentences of up to five words , and can understand commands even when hearing them for the first time . |
| 28 | making them for the next morning . |
| 29 | Maurice Ododo is the catechist at Aluor mission and every day was busy going near and far training and teaching the Christians , preparing them for the Sacraments and instructing catechumens . |
| 30 | Since time immemorial ‘ Staggy ’ had been drip-feeding ambitious junior researchers with toxin , preparing them for the stronger poisons which lay ahead . |