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单词 to have sight of
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to have sight of
(b) To obtain the opportunity to do, to be able to do (the specified action). Esp. with nouns denoting acts of seeing, as to have sight of, to have a glimpse of, etc. Cf. get v. 8b, catch v. Phrases 8.For a possible earlier example, see quot. OE1 at sense 3 and the note at that sense.
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?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 75 Ȝe schulen habbe þer up þe brichte sichðe of godes neb.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 1623 He nolde þe gywes leue ȝiue..þat hii moste of þe boru enes abbe an siȝte.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17343 Þar he o naman suld ha sight.
a1500 (c1350) Octovian (Cambr.) (1986) l. 1248 (MED) Thogh sche monyd hym to ylle, ȝyt were hyt mykull yn hur wylle, To haue of hym a syght.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 318 The winde was so contrarious that he could haue no passage.
1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 536 Wee had sight of an Island, which we made to be Iamaica.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 208 Here and there one or other had a glimpse of him as he did make his escape out of Mansoul. View more context for this quotation
1735 Sportsman's Dict. II. at Sparrow-hawks Go with your spaniels to seek some beavy of young quails, advancing your fist aloft, that the hawk may have sight of them when they spring.
1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey through Albania xxx. 478 We had a view of the monastery of St. Meletius, and found we had gone in a south-south-westerly direction.
1844 J. H. D. Hay Western Barbary xi. 76/2 The inhabitants rushed out from their houses to have a sight of the Ensara.
1890 Cent. Mag. June 277/2 They say we are to have a taste of rough weather, and I begin to feel an icy nip in the air.
1904 Speaker 11 June 253/1 Crossing the shaggy wilderness,..we have a peep of old Fort Garry.
1992 Economist 9 May 36/1 Neither Liberal Democrats nor Liberals have had a sniff of real power.
2004 H. Kunzru Transmission (2005) 216 He had a momentary glimpse of the interior.
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