Example sentences of "he saw the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the increasing triumph of Enlightenment — Liberty , Fraternity , Equality , Adultery ! |
| 2 | The Prussian Finance Minister , von Motz , explained to the King in 1829 that he saw the economic union of Germany as the prelude to its political unification ‘ under the protection of Prussia ’ . |
| 3 | As Thomas watched , he saw the raging torrent of the river turn into a glacier of red ice , frozen in time . |
| 4 | He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son . |
| 5 | He saw the first group of storm-troopers in the forest to his left . |
| 6 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 7 | His compassion intensified when he saw the other inhabitant of the bed — a small , shabby teddy-bear . |
| 8 | He became impatient , frustrated ; he kept seeing Ray Doyle 's pallid features , reflecting the internal battle for survival that his friend was waging ; he saw the sprawled corpse of Lin Foh , the gut shot Welshman , the wounded CI5 man in the basement . |
| 9 | He saw the rear view of a fat young man in jeans and a leather jacket . |
| 10 | He was at Ibrox in 1971 when 66 fans died in a crush on the steps of the stadium ; in September 1980 , he had to watch the pathetically outmatched Welsh bantam-weight Johnny Owen die at the hands of Lupe Pintor , after writing beforehand ‘ this fight could end up in the intensive care unit ’ ; and he saw the heart-bursting tension of a World Cup qualifying match kill the man with whom he had an almost filial relationship , the Celtic and Scottish national football manager , Jock Stein . |
| 11 | He saw the alluring swathe of curly pubic hair which covered her crotch ; in the centre nestled the jewel of her sexuality . |
| 12 | The offworlder 's eyes were troubled , as if he saw the whole past of his kind moving before him . |
| 13 | He saw the whole machinery of government as keenly attuned to public opinion because the character of the government depended on the results of the last general election ; because there must be an election at least every 5 years ; and because the electors had a genuinely free choice between candidates putting forward different policies . |
| 14 | Chen stood up , a cry coming to his lips as he saw the bright flash of a knife being drawn . |
| 15 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 16 | He saw some tangled blonde hair , he saw the white light of the kitchen catch on the rough edge of a broken tooth . |
| 17 | He saw the intense charm of bourgeois Victorian decor many years before the onset of Betjemania , and was an early collector of such objects of mild fantasy as waxen fruits in tall glass domes and crenellated jelly moulds . |
| 18 | Looking up , he saw the astral form of Gunda , a shepherdess he had attempted to seduce and then killed , with Wolfhead , the faithful boarhound he had also killed in a fury . |
| 19 | He saw the moving mouth of the man so nearly dead ; the stain on the waistcoat , and felt a strengthening of the foreboding that had never left him . |
| 20 | ILY BRATINA , an economist and veteran of two world wars and the Russian Revolution who said he saw the charred body of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker , has died aged 96 . |
| 21 | In the far distance he saw the shadowed mouth of a large culvert angling towards them . |
| 22 | He saw the indiscreet movement of the CI5 man across the road , and guessed that the man 's attention had been distracted after the long night 's watch , and he had missed the car 's departure . |
| 23 | Then he saw the glowing tip of someone 's cigarette behind the windshield . |
| 24 | He should have sensed that something was wrong , but he saw the thin trail of smoke above the trees and it hardly registered in his mind . |
| 25 | One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled . |
| 26 | She yawned like a cat and he saw the red inside of her mouth . |
| 27 | This time it proved to be the tunnel 's end , and as he drew nearer he saw the shadowy outline of a ladder etched against the concrete . |
| 28 | Then he saw the broken string of a relic-bag and realised it was Mael-Isu of Deer . |
| 29 | Luckily , when I explained the situation , he saw the funny side of it . |
| 30 | He saw the funny side of it and used to say when he met me years later " How 's your sexual depression , then , Bruce ? " |