Example sentences of "see for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way back from that holiday in Provence , the party stopped in Paris , which John was also seeing for the first time . |
| 2 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 3 | Her friends ridiculed her , seeing for the first time how the balance in their relationship had shifted in favour of adorable Diana . |
| 4 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 5 | Hardly aware of the chill she paced restlessly along the bank , seeing for the first time the way the dew crisped to frost along each blade of grass until the parkland veered from dark to grey to an ephemeral diamond enchantment . |
| 6 | But now she looked around her , really seeing for the first time the humming activity of the fruit and vegetable market , breathing in the aromatic smells , noticing how charming the open square was , with its border of pizza stalls and cafés and bistros . |
| 7 | On unsteady legs she walked towards the painting , seeing for the first time the mischievous face of a gremlin peeping out beneath the skirt of an old lady bent double , sweeping a woodland path . |
| 8 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 9 | Her heart still pounding nineteen to the dozen , she looked over towards the window , seeing for the first time a familiar , powerfully-built figure standing there . |
| 10 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 11 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 12 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 13 | To see for the first time and together that incomparable view of San Marco from the western end of the Piazza . |
| 14 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 15 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 16 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 17 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 19 | Llanelli and Neath put on a show as good as anything seen for a long time at club level . |
| 20 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 21 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 22 | Best editor seen for a long time . |
| 23 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 24 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 25 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
| 26 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 27 | And at whatever time of the year you visit Edinburgh , there are the art galleries and museums — though the priceless and vulnerable collection of Turner water-colours can only be seen for a short period in winter . |
| 28 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 29 | Corners can be cut on flowers and remember , the flowers at the reception are going to be seen for a longer time than those in the church . |
| 30 | But that same militant masculinity has to be seen for the contradictory and often conservative force that it is . |