Example sentences of "saw [noun prp] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I first saw Salamanca at a certain moment of dusk when the setting sun still casts a deep red glow over the city 's rosy stone . |
2 | St Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) saw Spain as a Christian land , in which the separate identities of Goth and Roman were no longer of any but historical interest . |
3 | They were only one of many small groups Nguyen Seth took an interest in , but Duroc knew the Elder saw Paris as an important flashpoint in the coming deluge and so they required more personal attention than similar factions in Johannesburg , Puerto Belgrano , Teheran , Shanghai , Mexico City , Malmo , Berlin , Belfast , Genoa or Birmingham . |
4 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
5 | He saw God as a glorified combination of boat and helicopter , not unlike Jules Verne 's The Terror . |
6 | France saw Space-Lab as an American attempt to control European space research . |
7 | Leese saw Mosley as an unprincipled opportunist and argued that his fascism was not based on racial nationalism . |
8 | Abroad , the German princes who had reformed their churches along Lutheran lines saw Henry as a potential ally against their common enemy , the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , but demanded as a preliminary to a political alliance that he accept their Protestant statement of faith , the Augsburg Confession of 1530 . |
9 | I saw Michael on a regular basis in the children 's home to which he returned . |