Example sentences of "saw a [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |
| 2 | The door opened six inches and she saw a sliver of dark landing , stairs coiling away to the street . |
| 3 | Good things are expected of south eastern electricity business SEEBOARD , which saw a change of top management earlier in the year . |
| 4 | This was the period which saw a revolution in popular music and the beginning of rock'n'roll . |
| 5 | As her silence lengthened a muscle flexed in his jaw and she saw a flicker of murderous rage in his eye for one instant . |
| 6 | Taking off the lid , he saw a sheet of white tissue-paper . |
| 7 | Susan saw a smear of yellow paint across his knuckles . |
| 8 | The critic as advocate has been fortunate in twentieth-century France , where a climate of culture has brought art and literature together ; also art and philosophy , in the case of Jean-Paul Sartre 's advocacy of Giacometti , in whose emaciated figure sculptures the philosopher saw a metaphor of human struggle , even , as he wrote in an article in Les Temps modernes in 1948 , ‘ the fleshless martyrs of Buchenwald ’ . |
| 9 | Somewhat fewer readers of the Star and the Guardian saw a Conservative versus Labour bias in their papers though , on balance , they thought the Star was pro-Conservative and the Guardian anti-Conservative . |
| 10 | You 've written , ‘ I saw a pair of golden plover … |
| 11 | Also , I must admit I saw a pair of green suede baby shoes in Gap and I all but swooned : size 0 , cute as Goldie Hawn 's left ear , very nearly her right . |
| 12 | He saw a shudder of pure rage ripple through her and felt himself go cold inside . |
| 13 | Whoever saw a beach of red sand , or a woman with a green face ? |
| 14 | In an instant Forster saw a flash of silvery light ; sensed the wrongness . |
| 15 | She saw a look of real dislike cross Mrs Browning 's face , quickly followed by an expression of exasperation . |
| 16 | Turning to leave he saw a jiffy-bag of formidable bulk addressed to himself in Sixsmith 's tremulous hand . |
| 17 | And then , in the blowing clouds , she saw a band of faint iridescence colouring in faint shadows a portion of the hill . |
| 18 | It saw a role for internal assessment ( internal to the school ) in helping to release the school curriculum from total control by examination syllabuses originating outside of the school . |
| 19 | The result was that though his reign saw a growth in popular literacy , the setting up of Jewish and Protestant schools and the supply by the government of free textbooks for elementary teaching , it also witnessed a serious attack on secondary education and the universities . |
| 20 | The spring of 1951 saw a boycott of public transport and a general strike in Barcelona , and a strike in the mining , ship-building and steel sectors of the Basque Country . |
| 21 | I thought once or twice that I saw a glint of sardonic amusement in Conchis 's eyes , but I could n't be sure . |
| 22 | Although the denseness of the bushes prevented a clear view , Chuck saw a patch of brown-black shadow move unmistakably and he immediately raised his rifle . |
| 23 | The end of the selfish eighties saw a groundswell of popular desire to flee the sharp competitiveness and tension of the cities to the imagined tranquillity and neighbourliness of the countryside . |
| 24 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 25 | The following years saw a decline in local music production so far as commercial recording was concerned . |
| 26 | MMT Computing AS Ltd , the only one to deal in a vertical market — AS/400 software — saw a lot of new work because , Haines said , many users are converting from mainframes to mid-range systems . |
| 27 | During this war , the skies over Britain often saw a lot of aerial activity , and many planes fell to the ground damaged or in flames . |
| 28 | In fact those years saw a lot of feminist activity . |
| 29 | ‘ He was a middle-aged guy and I was beginning to think that he never saw a guy with long hair before . |
| 30 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |