Example sentences of "was seeing [art] " in BNC.

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1 He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts .
2 The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too .
3 I was very proud of having got movement back in my second leg and was twiddling my toes , but he thought that he was seeing a bloody ghost .
4 I was seeing a different Tom again .
5 ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , why did you not explain at once that Mr Leland was seeing a patient in here ? ’
6 Now , though , she was seeing a Mickey that she did n't know .
7 It was as if she was seeing a stranger , a stranger with her daughter 's face and body .
8 ‘ Listen to this , ’ he said , and read a passage : ‘ I was seeing a colleague from work , but just as a friend , because I need someone to talk to .
9 I thought I was seeing a ghost .
10 ‘ I knew that Elise was seeing a lot of someone .
11 Ken himself was seeing a psychiatrist because of his own depressions .
12 I knew that there was a problem and made a note of it erm that it was hereditary and that he was seeing a consultant , but there 's other parts of the C C Q that would actually relate to that and go into it in a lot more detail
13 Late on Friday afternoon Shelley was trying not to think of the exciting young Miguelito , while she was seeing a family of four children who had all caught chickenpox .
14 Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open .
15 Myler , 31 , was seeing a specialist amid fears he could be advised to quit .
16 So she was seeing the Colombians as the enemy .
17 The writer 's own experience was seeing the Progress car in the first post-war Illuminations of 1949 : sheer magic as it swept by , playing music while its myriad bulbs radiated heat and light .
18 I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish .
19 For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time .
20 The next thing I remember was seeing the face of a policeman above his yellow emergency jacket , who was reassuring me : I was all right .
21 Iggy Pop and the lippily ascendant Wonder Stuff aside , the only high point was seeing the pathetic Meat Loaf take umbrage at the traditional hail of plastic bottles .
22 He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him .
23 The thing that really motivated me was seeing the 1968 Olympics ; I saw Thommie Smith and thought , ‘ God , that 's it ! ’
24 Behind her diamond eyes , Jezrael was seeing the plants she 'd maimed in the name of cultures .
25 At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’
26 Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria .
27 It was seeing the animals .
28 As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation .
29 Turakina behaved as if she was seeing the offworlder for the first time .
30 By now my man was seeing the ball like a melon .
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