Example sentences of "saw [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 2 | Television 's enormous shift of emphasis on to defence issues in the third week of the campaign correlated with a huge rise in the number of voters who saw defence as the Conservative Party 's main campaign theme , but with only a modest rise in the number of who wanted a defence debate . |
| 3 | It was important for this connection that the model of biological evolution used should be one that saw change as the cumulative product of the actions of individual organisms over many generations . |
| 4 | He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden . |
| 5 | Durkheim 's investigations into religion , with their historic results , were prompted by the fact that he saw religion as the major source of values and , despite increasing secularisation , religion still plays an influential role in society 's moral codes . |
| 6 | ‘ You said you never saw action in the last war ? ’ |
| 7 | In 1954 Fireflies from 825 Squadron ( Warrior ) saw action against the communist rebels in Malaya . |
| 8 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 9 | And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY . |
| 10 | As ex-communists hung on in Serbia , many Croats and Slovenes saw independence as the fast track to democracy . |
| 11 | Jardine saw opium as the only source of ready Chinese currency , with which to trade in silk , tea , and other items . |
| 12 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 13 | Twenty years ago people argued about definitions but they did not really disagree about a system of values which centred the individual 's worth in a family context and saw counselling as the social worker 's core skill . |
| 14 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
| 15 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
| 16 | More conventional thinkers in the Labour leadership saw discretion as the better part of valour and held their fire . |
| 17 | Also on the eastern frontages Paull Battery which saw service in the Civil War when Charles I attempted to blockade Hull , the first city to turn against him . |
| 18 | It later saw service in the Napoleonic wars and as an anti-aircraft point in this century . |
| 19 | He saw service in the Baltic Republics and earned a special commendation for his analysis of the situation among the ethnic groups . |
| 20 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
| 21 | He saw movement at the far side of the field , close by a dark-leafed wood . |
| 22 | Even during the Exclusion Crisis there were many conservative Whigs who saw Exclusion as the only way to preserve strong monarchy in England . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her . |
| 24 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 25 | Of the 45 women questioned in the survey , 9 thought sex a necessity for men ; 13 thought it a necessity for men and women ; 24 thought it a pleasure for both sexes ; 1 thought it an exclusive pleasure for men ; while 30 saw reproduction as the primary aim . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 27 | When Charles knelt to support him , he saw tears in the sick man 's eyes . |
| 28 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 29 | He was on the pavement , waiting , when he saw Volkov on the opposite side of the road . |
| 30 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |