Example sentences of "[noun] saw [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Michaelmas term saw me at my most hostile . |
| 2 | This was certainly how Keynes saw it in one of his last memoranda , in February 1946 . |
| 3 | ‘ So your mummy saw me with the boys , did she ? |
| 4 | erm , Eric Clapton saw you in heaven , oh , oh , oh , oh , oh |
| 5 | erm , Eric Clapton saw you in heaven , oh , oh , oh , oh , oh |
| 6 | Dr Neil saw her on the bed , face swollen and unrecognisable , all her bright lustre gone . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And from the moment Mr Weintraub saw him in Spain he has been in someone 's company twenty-four hours a day . |
| 9 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 10 | From that moment on , the Kremlin saw him as a ‘ realistic ’ politician — in other words , as one who urged the people to accept the invasion . |
| 11 | But a witness saw him outside the premises . |
| 12 | Bowhill , much as Sir Walter Scott saw it in the ‘ Lay of the Last Minstrel ’ is there for all to enjoy . |
| 13 | TV COMMENTARY duties saw us at Headingley on a Tuesday followed by Cardiff on the Thursday . |
| 14 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 15 | The old lady saw it in her face . |
| 16 | Nell saw it in his eyes , and nodded . |
| 17 | Nicholson saw them around Sunset Strip and for a time they were joined by Elvis Presley , who had seen Rebel Without a Cause forty-four times and could speak Dean 's lines word perfect . |
| 18 | Getting to her feet , Rachaela saw her from the window , dawdling off along the road towards school . |
| 19 | Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain . |
| 20 | But the Senior Management Team saw him as a somewhat shy and introverted person and sought to persuade him to be more outward-looking and to be the teacher in the Art department to liaise with the Needlecraft department , a development which they were keen to see . |
| 21 | That the two dogs saw me through the window , and jumped clean through the glass . |
| 22 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 25 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 26 | Charles and Louis saw it as a divine Judgement , confirming their claims to a share in the Frankish heartlands . |
| 27 | Rain saw him in profile — predatory nose , stubborn chin , arrogant eyes . |
| 28 | The German saw him at once , walked over , shook hands , greeted him in his own language . |
| 29 | The semi-final on the Sunday saw me in Ben 's heat and again it was easy qualifying , with Ben first , me second , and third , to the crowd 's wild enthusiasm , Pavoni . |
| 30 | To Selborne it was no more nor less than " robbing the church " and many Unionists saw it in such simple terms . |