Example sentences of "saw he [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 4 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 5 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 9 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 10 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 11 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 12 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 13 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 14 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |