Example sentences of "of seeing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 2 | It appeared that the excitement of seeing me had activated Cedric 's weakness . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid you wo n't have the pleasure of seeing me onstage . |
| 4 | She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg . |
| 5 | How odd , Alec thought , I 've been thinking about her all the time since I came here , trying to think of some way of seeing her again . |
| 6 | This realisation touched him , took the shock of seeing her and softened it . |
| 7 | Sadly , she never carries cash , so any hope of seeing her choose something unusually revolting for daughter-in-law Fergie soon faded . |
| 8 | I knew Mrs Reed would be there too and I was frightened of seeing her again . |
| 9 | The Marshal could not stop her , and , although I was afraid for her , I was excited at the thought of seeing her again . |
| 10 | There was no way that she would give him the satisfaction of seeing her emerge later in the evening with puffy red eyes . |
| 11 | After next week there 'll be no chance whatever of seeing her again . ’ |
| 12 | ED BICKNELL is manager of Dire Straits who he says that he wanted to represent within five minutes of seeing them live . |
| 13 | We pour much time , money , anxiety and effort into our children simply for the pleasure of seeing them grow into the kind of people we long for them to be . |
| 14 | I have now , through your lordship 's favour , the satisfaction of seeing them cultivated in my neighbourhood , by the skilful hand of my friend , Mr. Miller , and shall take the first opportunity of describing and engraving them that the public may see how much they are indebted to your lordship . |
| 15 | After that the solid throb of their engines and the thrill of seeing them skim to a halt on the waters of Poole Harbour were mere memories , although they continued to give excellent service in other parts of the world and a travel company has recently introduced a nostalgic flying-boat holiday across Africa on the route once used by Imperial Airways . |
| 16 | All things and all relationships can be studied , and with the right attitude and creative effort , a new way of seeing them occurs . |
| 17 | It seemed to Ruth , what her aunt had long suspected , that to part with loved ones while they are still living , with never a hope of seeing them again , was worse than losing them by death . |
| 18 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 19 | I could do the English and the intelligence tests , but I was hopeless at mental arithmetic : for some reason my mind would go blank whenever I tried to visualise numbers instead of seeing them written down . |
| 20 | Yet in some areas still , their skills are not appreciated ; they can be seen as trouble-makers who regard doctor as fellow colleagues instead of seeing them as bosses who are there to give orders . |
| 21 | But even for the sake of seeing them again , I never longed to be back … . |
| 22 | Their manager , standing in the wings , wondered what Arthur was yakking about , and at the same time had a moment of seeing them as Gandhi carrying a buffalo . |
| 23 | ‘ They are not so appealing that I relish the idea of seeing them again , ’ Murtach retorted . |
| 24 | The prospect of seeing them made him full of joy . |
| 25 | You go anywhere there is anything horsy happening in the hope of seeing them . |
| 26 | I 'm sick of seeing them all ! |
| 27 | I had the advantage of seeing him first , eagerly scanning the carriages , and I observed that he was bronzed almost to the colour of teak . |
| 28 | We have had heroes in our time at Crystal Palace but there was only one Albert Harry and those who had the pleasure and privilege of seeing him play were lucky indeed . |
| 29 | ‘ I have had the mortification of seeing him … this afternoon with three prizes … ’ wrote one irate resident to the Admiralty , ‘ and nothing in the world to oppose him . ’ |
| 30 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |