Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] saw the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , for the first time , my father saw the barbaric splendour of the Abyssinian Empire He described it in a letter to his mother : |
| 2 | When my mother saw the room , her jaw dropped . |
| 3 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 4 | Among these was the USA , but their delegation saw the obvious sense in the proposal and while they were not authorised to approve it they would not oppose it but would abstain instead . |
| 5 | When her father saw the evidence of this sin he condemned her to death . |
| 6 | When they came into the light her mother saw the child 's face covered in blood and felt faint . |
| 7 | John Calambokidis , who runs the non-profit marine-mammal organisation Cascadia Research , based in nearby Olympia , says that 1991 was the year that his team saw the most whales come in to Puget Sound , and stay the longest . |
| 8 | The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it . |
| 9 | They were silent on the way back , walking to cool the horses ; if his father saw the state they were in he would be angry . |
| 10 | The pilot of a Fuji aircraft at about 500 feet agl on finals , who believed he was number four to land , saw a Cherokee type aircraft approaching him on a collision course from his 10 o'clock ; to him the aircraft appeared to be level or slightly high and under power , and his passenger saw the Cherokee 's landing light flash . |
| 11 | His tenure saw the gallery grow from a provincial treasure house to a world-renowned showcase which challenged the Metropolitan as the country 's most prestigious venue . |
| 12 | The early years of his tenure saw the creation under Ida Ward [ q.v. ] of the first department of the languages and cultures of Africa in a British university , and the successful negotiation of the school 's removal from the City of London to Bloomsbury . |
| 13 | Three times his donkey saw the invisible angel sent by God , and stopped dead . |
| 14 | Both the coroner and his companion saw the chain fastened to the wall strain at its clasps . |
| 15 | when you first saw the house for the very , very first time and when your wife saw the house , what was the reaction ? |
| 16 | ‘ Your mother saw the announcement in the paper , ’ Barbara said to James . |