Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane , who had a natural feel for mood and background which complemented the clothes , swam more than competently and her black and white images of windswept models against bleak moors or stark beaches created for many who saw them on the white shop walls their indelible image of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 2 | Saw them at the same time , change of address . |
| 3 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 4 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 5 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 6 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 7 | It was not the case that he neglected domestic issues — least of all in the period 1963 – 65 — but rather that he saw them within the larger framework of France 's relations with the world . |
| 8 | Dazedly he saw them by the sagging chaise-longue . |
| 9 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 10 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 11 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 12 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |
| 15 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 16 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 17 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 18 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 19 | His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s . |
| 20 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 21 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 22 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 23 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 24 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 25 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 27 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 28 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 29 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 30 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |