Example sentences of "saw [art] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I saw the title of the next album — ‘ The Sunday Brunch ’ — I immediately assumed this must be the ‘ American ’ one ( ) . |
| 2 | Spring 1906 saw the election of the first Dumas . |
| 3 | Chaucer worked in the first Customs House , and Pepys saw the building of the first wet dock at Blackwall . |
| 4 | Homer Scott was delighted when he saw the building for the first time at the May Day meeting and even the course bookmakers who are not known for lavishing praise on anything , are impressed by what has been built . |
| 5 | I saw the voice for the first time ! |
| 6 | Write the Captain 's log for the period that starts when they first saw the strange " whale " and ends when he saw the Monongahela for the last time . |
| 7 | It should be added that though this book is about BR , the 1980s also saw the opening of the last section of the Tyne & Wear Metro in March 1984 and the launch of the stillexpanding Docklands Light Railway in July 1987 . |
| 8 | June also saw the beginning of the second successive hot , dry summer , with consumers recognising the versatility of pork products for the barbeque and to serve with salads . |
| 9 | The end of April saw the withdrawal of the last remaining freight , the weekly Wednesdays only Stanlow to Aberystwyth oil tanks . |
| 10 | As she did he saw the ring on the third finger of her left hand ; the large diamond sparkled brightly . |
| 11 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 12 | Elliott saw the move at the last second . |
| 13 | Between 1801 and 1851 the area 's population doubled and it doubled again from 1851 to 1921 , the year that saw the culmination of the first phase of the town 's development as a capitalist urban locality . |
| 14 | The late seventies saw the establishment of the first women 's film/video distributors , Cinema of Women , followed , some years later , by a second distributor , Circles . |
| 15 | ‘ When my father , six months before his death , saw the car for the first time at the Paris show — where he decided to go even though his health was not good — he fell in love with it immediately . |
| 16 | In the next chapters we shall look at how scientific education , tending to dogmatism in its elementary stages at least , and the rise of physics as the leading science , affected the way people saw the world in the last decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | TITLE chasing United manager Alex Ferguson saw the result of the 118th Manchester Derby as two points lost . |
| 18 | She saw the German at the last possible moment . |
| 19 | When Marek saw the headstone for the first time no one in the neighbourhood whom he asked knew anything about the man who had been buried there . |
| 20 | September saw the premiere of the second film of the cycle , A Short Film About Love with top honours at San Sebastian . |
| 21 | He felt his bowels loosen , felt the hairs on his neck and forearms prickle as he saw the face of the first intruder , the one who held the gun . |
| 22 | Last year saw the completion of the first ever tenant-led £1.3 million ‘ Passive Solar Energy Demonstration Project ’ . |
| 23 | Elsewhere on Southern Region ( where main-line passengers could see no prospect of new stock ) 1980 saw the introduction of the first refurbished 4-CEP ( Class 411 ) unit No 411506 . |
| 24 | The second half of the third millennium BC saw the introduction of the first metalworking into Britain . |
| 25 | And as she hit the wall , the breath knocked out of her , she saw the intruder for the first time . |
| 26 | After a period of subjection to Assyrian and later neo-Babylonian rulers , Persia saw the emergence in the first millennium BC of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 27 | British lawyers , especially those with experience in India , contrasted the ancient society of ‘ status ’ with the new one of ‘ contract ’ and saw the transition from the first to the second as the principal pattern of historical development . |
| 28 | ‘ We saw a decline through the second half of last year and there is no sign of any recovery in the first half . |
| 29 | She sauntered back to the view and Miss Blandish , but swept her sunglasses on with instinctive irritation as she saw a figure on the next balcony . |