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 | His compassion intensified when he saw the other inhabitant of the bed — a small , shabby teddy-bear . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He saw the rear view of a fat young man in jeans and a leather jacket . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He saw the alluring swathe of curly pubic hair which covered her crotch ; in the centre nestled the jewel of her sexuality . |
| 10 | The offworlder 's eyes were troubled , as if he saw the whole past of his kind moving before him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Chen stood up , a cry coming to his lips as he saw the bright flash of a knife being drawn . |
| 13 | 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 , . |
| 14 | He saw some tangled blonde hair , he saw the white light of the kitchen catch on the rough edge of a broken tooth . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the far distance he saw the shadowed mouth of a large culvert angling towards them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Then he saw the glowing tip of someone 's cigarette behind the windshield . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She yawned like a cat and he saw the red inside of her mouth . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Then he saw the broken string of a relic-bag and realised it was Mael-Isu of Deer . |
| 27 | Luckily , when I explained the situation , he saw the funny side of it . |
| 28 | He saw the funny side of it and used to say when he met me years later " How 's your sexual depression , then , Bruce ? " |
| 29 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 30 | The first he knew of it was a warning call from high above where he saw the angry silhouette of a golden eagle stooping . |