Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] saw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was already nearly dusk and I supposed the Dutch people whom I saw on the pavements and on bicycles were hurrying to get home before the curfew . |
| 2 | Mr Flood had been staring into that tree a lot lately , and worse still having conversations with someone he saw in its branches . |
| 3 | Nobody I saw in the streets ever looked up . |
| 4 | Yeah I 've got another trip which I saw on telly , again which I shall never do I think , er which sounded pretty good , you flew , flew to er |
| 5 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
| 6 | For example : Mother Simone in Pavlova 's version of La Fille Mal Gardée which I saw in Kiev ( 1954 ) was played by a man and used such tricks as titivating before meeting Father Thomas and fainting when Lise is discovered in her bedroom with Colas . |
| 7 | I will post my comments on the game later , which I saw in my local on Sky . |
| 8 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Blackwell , the pioneer woman doctor , in The Human Element in Sex ( 1885 ) , rejected Acton 's denial of female sexuality , which she saw as an ‘ immense spiritual force of attraction … |
| 10 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |
| 11 | In Butler 's case this led to a radical campaign against the Contagious Diseases ( CD ) Acts of the 1860s ( under which prostitutes were subject to compulsory medical inspection and detained if found to have venereal disease ) , which she saw as part of the double moral standard oppressing all women and debasing family life . |
| 12 | Running into the glade , she picked up Rosalind 's letter and folded it back into its envelope , which she saw to her dismay had been badly torn by the man 's rough handling of it . |
| 13 | A favourite ballet was Swan Lake which she saw at least four times when school parties travelled to the Coliseum or Sadler 's Wells theatres in London . |
| 14 | And then he was gone down the stairs , running lightly , for all his limp , and the last which she saw of him was the sandy-blond head before he turned the corner of the first landing . |
| 15 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 16 | This must follow since we move away from direct taxes which we saw to be progressive , towards indirect taxes , which at best are proportional ( VAT ) , and more usually are regressive ( the community charge — now the new Council Tax , uniform business rate , excise duties , import duties , etc . ) . |
| 17 | We grew very fond of the Temple of Luxor which we saw from our window in every mood of light . |
| 18 | None of my chat-up lines ever worked , probably because I learned them too early — I was heavily influenced by American television programmes of the '50s which we saw in Australia . |
| 19 | Those lucky teachers who came under Basil 's guidance were helped to be more creative themselves and to bring out creativity in their children with the amazing results which we saw in the West Riding schools . |
| 20 | Herr Kohl acknowledged that the far Right was gaining support from people opposed to the EC 's Maastricht agreement , which they saw as an anti-nationalist pact to give up the Deutschemark . |
| 21 | In 1951 Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow ; Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson resigned from the Labour government in protest at the imposition of charges within the National Health Service , which they saw as an attack on the principles of the Welfare State . |
| 22 | In 1811 the Luddites rioted and destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs . |
| 23 | The regular , monotonous monastic discipline gave the monks a peace and equanimity which they saw as a tranquil experience of God which was fully in tune with their normal lives . |
| 24 | The Die-hards were opposed to the rise of a socialist Labour party and militant trade unionism , which they saw as a revolutionary threat to property and the stability of British society . |
| 25 | That is to say , all seized on an element of structural and formal strength in his work , which they saw as a corrective to the formlessness which had characterized so much French painting since the Impressionists had insisted on the validity of an instantaneous form of vision , that had so often dissolved the solidity of the material world into a haze of atmospheric colour and light . |
| 26 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 27 | When they had heard the king , they departed ; and lo , the star , which they saw in the east , went before them , till it came and stood over where the young child was . |
| 28 | When he looked back upon his short time at the Choir School of King 's College , it was the meeting with Milner-White which he saw as the memorable gift from the school . |
| 29 | This plot gave expression to one of Asimov 's pet hates , ‘ pseudo-science ’ , which he saw as a threat to liberty . |
| 30 | It is a shock , no doubt , to find so humanistic a writer denigrating Renaissance humanism , which he saw as philistine and obscurantist : the New Learning , he believed , created the New Ignorance . |