Example sentences of "he saw [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The playwright St John Ervine was standing nearby and described what he saw to the Daily Mail : |
| 2 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |
| 3 | ‘ Progressive ’ educational sentiments also provided important elements in Baden-Powell 's Boy Scout philosophy , and he never tired of criticising what he saw as the dulling conformity and uninspired education provided by the State . |
| 4 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 5 | When he looked back upon his short time at the Choir School of King 's College , it was the meeting with Milner-White which he saw as the memorable gift from the school . |
| 6 | The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ) and the The Woodlanders ( 1887 ) marked first his literary return to Wessex and then his growing conviction that fiction should not conceal what he saw as the essential tragedy of the human condition . |
| 7 | But he was equally unhappy with the typical alternative , with what he saw as the uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism . |
| 8 | O'Neill made an impassioned defence of his policies on television and appealed for support for what he saw as the only course that could save Ulster from deepening civil unrest . |
| 9 | He was less bothered by the thought of arms sales , however , than by what he saw as the fundamental unreality of the proposal . |
| 10 | He criticized in particular what he saw as the fundamental flaw in a system based on the pursuit of points : that a team was given a point before it even kicked a ball . |
| 11 | Appalled at the annual wakes week , with its general exodus to Morecambe and Blackpool , and what he saw as the mindless spending of hard-earned wages on inane amusements , Leonard proposed an alternative form of holiday . |
| 12 | However , in the same short speech , he made reference to what he saw as the enormous power of the mass media : the press was ‘ one of the major forces in shaping this world ’ — a situation he did not entirely welcome . |
| 13 | His Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone expounds what he saw as the ethical basis of religion . |
| 14 | Rousseau 's dislike of " sectional associations " sprang from what he saw as the growing tendency for people to identify themselves primarily with these associations and their interests rather than with the community as a whole , and so to forget their duties as citizens . |
| 15 | Albert 's purpose in writing his book , published in the original French two years ago , was to warn a developing European Community against what he saw as the growing dominance of the American way of capitalism . |
| 16 | The new restrictions were thought to derive from the Prime Minister 's concern at what he saw as the growing influence of " exclusivist " religions such as Christianity and Islam . |
| 17 | Kuhn quotes Wolfgang Pauli 's response to what he saw as the growing crisis in physics around 1924 . |
| 18 | Irwin 's policy , then , was amity , meaning the perpetuation of government by those genetically equipped for it , in what he saw as the public interest , with public support . |
| 19 | ‘ There is apparently some great defect in our system , ’ concluded Khrushchev from his pensioner 's park bench as he compared what he saw of the capitalist West with the shoddy goods , poor food and massive waste of the supposed workers ' paradise . |
| 20 | Then he saw from the sudden anxiety on the parson 's face that this too might be misunderstood . |
| 21 | When 1951 ended he could justifiably let rip in more frivolous fashion on ‘ Huntin' , Shootin' and Fishin' ’ decorations for the Chelsea Arts Ball at which he saw in the new year . |
| 22 | In fact , for a time he saw in the New Order in France a possible source of ideas which he could implement in the construction of his New Order ( Nizam-i Cedit ) in Turkey . |
| 23 | She ripped away her scarf and he saw in the uncertain light the marks about her throat . |