Sentence examples for getting a sight of from inspiring English sources

Also about this time, Goethe's privileged acquaintances first record getting a sight of the developing manuscript of his Faust.

St Johnstone showed the more urgency in the opening stages with Graham twice getting a sight of goal.

John McGinn was first on the attack, getting a sight of Paul Gallacher's goal thanks to a defensive error, but he failed to properly connect with the effort.

The second half started in similar vein with Bayern seeing almost all of the ball but with Ronaldo getting a sight of goal with an angled shot which was saved by Manuel Neuer.

Rakitskyy almost gets a sight of goal but is overwhelmed by a blue flurry of defenders.

The last few spectators around the board drifted away: they wanted to get a sight of the Statue of Liberty.

I would have walked a great many miles to get a sight of him, and here he was, without trouble, or tramp, or cost of any kind.

Britain and France are trying to work together by allowing observers from each country to get a sight of defence reviews in their early stages.

"This time we have got several cameras trained on the pitch sample to make sure we get a sight of it dropping.

The striker did get a sight of goal again before the interval, but, afforded time and space on the edge of the area, he ballooned his attempt well over.

After Ms Angier, for whom everything seems liable to be equally and simultaneously brilliant and terrible, this is a great relief.Both biographers have certain coups they alone were able to pull off; Ms Angier got a sight of the manuscript of Levi's "Double Bond", a sort of follow-up to "The Periodic Table", and spoke to anonymous women friends of his late years.