Example sentences of "[noun] saw [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIVERPOOL second division action saw Devonshire House score a 3-2 verdict over Village Eagle with goals from Mick Brooks , John Garner and the winner from player manager Bob Lee . |
| 2 | Last year 's Best Actor contest saw Tom Cruise and Daniel Day Lewis competing wheelchair-to-wheelchair , with Cruise 's Ron Kovics ( Born on the Fourth of July ) just losing out to Day Lewis 's Christy Brown ( My Left Foot ) . |
| 3 | The settlement connects with other forms of extension in that it did have an educational aim , but , like Oxford House ( another settlement or " mission " set up in the East End in 1884 ) , it usefully illustrates new initiatives for the renewal of forms of leadership and patterns for social administration upon which the elevation of English largely depended , Barnett saw Toynbee Hall as the potential centre for an east London university ; in fact it became , as did the other settlements and extension classes , a centre for members of the middle class . |
| 4 | Income on livestock farms remained stable while combined beef and dairy units saw revenue fall by 4% . |
| 5 | Foreign industry saw unemployment pay — meagre as it was — as the last obstacle before this country became a handy offshore pool of cheap labour . |
| 6 | The photographer and his wife Jane had been about to go through into the concert hall when Leeson saw Lowell standing on his own . |
| 7 | There were just two balls remaining when seventh wicket pair Adrian Semple and Graham Benson saw North Down home . |
| 8 | May saw steam back west of Shrewsbury with the Severn valley Standard 4 operating a Crewe to Tywyn Service . |
| 9 | Comparison of market capitalisation to turnover ratios saw Application Hardware with 1.1 ; Components with 0.63 ; Distribution with 0.38 ; and Peripherals with 0.31 . |
| 10 | Notts County at home to Oldham went into a forty second minute lead through Turner , and this all second division clash saw Notts County go further ahead through Short after sixty five minutes ; two nil the final score . |
| 11 | The Group saw group moderation by teachers as a vital element , as being a process with significant benefit to teachers in itself as well as providing a crucial counterbalance to crudely over-simplified test results . |
| 12 | The next hundred years saw Christianity reassert itself and by 774 the manor of Halling had been established . |
| 13 | Worldwide , the systems integration business saw turnover rise 15.2% to £318.2m , comprising 76% of overall revenues . |
| 14 | In 1922 James Agate saw Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms and was in no doubt that ‘ this plain little American child ’ had given a performance which meant that she ranked ‘ with the world 's great artists ’ . |
| 15 | The organisers saw Morse drinking beer all the time on television and thought even if I did n't know anything about the quality of beer I must be a quantity man . |
| 16 | Thus , though it demonstrates the existence from the outset a common source of inspiration in Owenism for both trade unionism and co-operation , it demonstrates also that trade unionism saw Producer Co-operation not as an alternative and preferable way of organising manufacture and hence one to be adopted generally , not in short as a prime purpose , but as an occasional weapon . |
| 17 | After the service Jed saw Carol walking across the lawn in front of the cathedral . |
| 18 | Jed saw Creed wake . |
| 19 | In the wettest wetlands of all grows an even tougher thatching material , one of our most ancient natural crops : the giant saw sedge Cladium mariscus . |
| 20 | — Tim 's paper saw career development only in terms of promotion and not within people 's existing jobs |
| 21 | 29,000 people saw Chris Novoselic and Dave Grohl from Nirvana join Pearl Jam onstage , putting rumours of a feud between the bands firmly to rest . |
| 22 | Reeling , Cardiff saw Rohmer standing stock still , hands fastened to his ears in an almost business-like fashion , still staring straight ahead at the wall . |
| 23 | ICI saw turnover fall 3 per cent to £12900m over the year . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher saw State control as central to socialism : |
| 25 | The government saw chena cultivation as a threat to the state 's right to forest land , a matter of some importance because the sale of Crown land provided a significant proportion of official revenue in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Athelstan saw money change hands and Cranston came back with a thick broomstick . |
| 27 | Lower interest charges saw investment income fall 17 p.c. to £8.4m , but losses on the group 's general branch business were reduced by 25 p.c. to £4m , with a 52 p.c. jump in losses on motor insurance to £5m , offset by an improvement in the property underwriting account from the previous year 's losses to break-even . |
| 28 | That autumn saw Eva standing on the steps of the dark brick building in Denmark Hill , with its high surrounding wall , and predominant tower . |
| 29 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |
| 30 | Dorothy saw wartime service in the Woman 's Land Army , first in the timer corps and then as a tractor driver . |