Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath the shirt I saw the outline of her breasts . |
| 2 | The board itself saw the advantage of this course but the chairman , Humphrey Browne , was worried that privatization would lead to a crippling strike . |
| 3 | Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 . |
| 4 | That ‘ blatant behaviour ’ was confirmed by another old friend of the Duchess who saw the couple sharing an intimate dinner for two ‘ with their legs entwined under the table ’ in Chelsea 's exclusive L'Incontro restaurant earlier this year . |
| 5 | Then he pushed him towards the light , and in the light he saw the face of a boy of twenty . |
| 6 | Here they were presented with a new interpretation of world events from the Kremlin which saw the world as divided into ‘ two camps ’ and called on Communists everywhere to resist US ‘ imperialism ’ . |
| 7 | When Patrick came to the door of the aircraft he saw the flight of metal steps leading to the tarmac . |
| 8 | She then returned to work for JS in 1992 at Watchmoor Park , on the deli counter , having been a customer throughout the decades which saw the development of supermarkets into the modern stores of today . |
| 9 | The moment I saw the church , although there were considerable differences — the main and obvious one being it was not on a hill — I accepted it as my church . |
| 10 | I had n't come to this place with the conscious intention of divesting myself of my now cumbersome virginity ; but from the moment I saw the actor again — certainly from the moment his arms went round me and I felt the sense of fond familiarity , of affection rediscovered — I knew it was inevitable that we should , sooner or later , make love . |
| 11 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 12 | And through the window of the spaceship they saw the Moon before them , cold , white and beautiful ; and under the Moon , there was the Moon colony ! |
| 13 | Over the years she saw the section expand from handling only one company to its present total of 29 , involving 50 members of staff . |
| 14 | This broader context is particularly important for an understanding of the earliest stages of the creation of the Frankish kingdom , for the Franks and the Merovingians were relatively late participants in the crisis which saw the collapse of the western Empire and the establishment of the successor states . |
| 15 | A comparison of Sidonius and Avitus reveals something of the continuities and discontinuities of the late fifth and early sixth centuries , and thus of the period which saw the transformation of the barbarian settlements into fully fledged kingdoms . |
| 16 | The 1990s was the decade which saw the victory of the FMLN guerillas in El Salvador . |
| 17 | I was in the apple barrel the night we saw the island , and I heard every word you said . |
| 18 | Worst of all we are given no true insights into the man or the legend which saw the production of more than 75 films and made a poor boy from Lambeth the most famous and feted individual in the world . |
| 19 | On the television he saw the President waving at the cameras before the doors on Air Force One closed . |
| 20 | When the road dipped down to the curved span of the bridge she saw the water far below , snaking its way between the high rock walls of a narrow gorge . |
| 21 | Through the smoke he saw the balloon dropping , its basket swinging wildly . |
| 22 | In the morning I saw the flute player — a small green frog , like an emerald brooch to adorn a tree . |
| 23 | As he closed the gate he saw the curtain drop into position in the front window . |
| 24 | The 1850 Act was regarded with horror by the shipowners who saw the observance of petty regulations added to the loss of their rights to carry freight in British bottoms . |
| 25 | As he opened the door he saw the official , stripped naked , leaning over the bath . |
| 26 | ‘ As I turned the corner I saw the flag flying at half-mast and the meaning of it came like a flash . ’ |
| 27 | This was the phase which saw the development of the big modular schemes at City of London and Oxford Polytechnics . |
| 28 | As soon as he was inside the garden he saw the couple hitting each other with chairs ; ‘ The woman hit harder and had the upper hand ’ . |
| 29 | As I approached the pool I saw the pug marks of the tigress in the soft earth at the edge of the water . |
| 30 | Even in the darkness I saw the flush on her cheeks . |