Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] saw [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 2 | At one end of the ward a door led to a bathroom in which the ‘ bath ’ was a large caulked wooden tub — the sort one saw in the back-to-backs of the mining villages . |
| 3 | The men of the town carried long walking sticks of the sort one saw in the ancient temple reliefs . |
| 4 | Although a lifelong Labour voter , influenced by the poverty she saw as a teacher , Mrs Hughes spoke of how Mrs Thatcher ‘ gave me a lovely tour of No 10 and I thought she was such a nice person ’ . |
| 5 | The acting he saw as a boy was at the local cinema , popularly known as the ‘ Cach ’ — the ‘ Shithouse ’ . |
| 6 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 7 | All I would be was a punchbag for his escaping fury , the entity he saw as a new unbearable threat to his dominance in Tremayne 's stable ; the interloper , usurper , legitimate target . |
| 8 | and while he was talking to the woman he saw in the hall an elderly woman , and he said to the woman at the door , is that your mother , she said oh yes she 's with me now , she used to live at Woodbridge . |
| 9 | But the truly independently-minded MPs are the sort of Conservatives who turned out Neville Chamberlain in 1940 and whose mutterings in the Smoking Room could affect Conservative premiers. and the kind of Labour members with the outside income or the zeal who saw through the European Communities Bill . |
| 10 | The description fits the man we saw outside the opera the other night . |
| 11 | Was Lothar , perhaps , dedicating his work to the man he saw as the likely next pope ? |
| 12 | The man she saw on the other side was in his late thirties , his hair receding slightly , but what hair he did have was thick and lustrous and reached the collar of his shirt . |
| 13 | It 's against the system in Continental Europe , it 's against the system I saw in the occupied West Bank when I went out with the police last year and what I saw in South Africa a fortnight ago when I went out w with the police there i i i into the shanty towns and so on . |
| 14 | Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see . |
| 15 | He was fascinated by the power he saw inside the rich clothes , the allure of the title , the estates , the enrapturing confidence of the Army , the experiences … |
| 16 | The chap you saw in the druid outfit got them going again and he 's still the king-pin . ’ |
| 17 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |
| 18 | And the hostility she saw in the woman 's eyes made her shudder inwardly . |