Example sentences of "[adv] saw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Nicholas Beaumont , whose husband is Clerk of the Course , and whom I only saw in the distance ; Mr and Mrs Oliver Sherwood , Major and Mrs Peter Wiggin , Mr and Mrs Tim Dawson , Mr Harry Middleton , Mrs Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie , Colonel and Mrs Tommy Wallis , and their daughter Mrs Charles Baker ; Mr and Mrs John Guest , Mrs Tom Scott , Mr Peter Dimmock , and Mrs George Beeby . |
| 2 | When painting Cornish scenes Minton had been aware of the precedent set by Christopher Wood and The Times rightly saw in The Harbour an attempt to translate a Christopher Wood theme ‘ into the tragic idiom of modern painters ’ . |
| 3 | She had none of that innocence or boundless enthusiasm that the Princesse always saw as the stamp of the American girl . |
| 4 | A kind and intelligent psychiatrist ( one of the few we ever saw outside the hospital ) came to talk to us about schizophrenia — the most feared mental illness of all . |
| 5 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 6 | The rise of Fascism was welcomed at the time , not only by the Italians but by many others , including the British Prime Minister , Baldwin , and Winston Churchill , who probably saw in the movement a bulwark against Bolshevism . |
| 7 | He also saw to the payment of the doctors and nurses who looked after Paul , though he never visited him , any more than Dinah did . |
| 8 | Indeed , as we also saw in the last chapter , one recent writer ( Jenkins , 1984 ) portrays Beccaria 's postponement of the positivist revolution as being anti-radical and supportive of existing authoritarian rulers . |
| 9 | De Michelis freely admitted that the Italians now also saw in the Pentagonale the means to create a counterweight to the political and economic power of a united Germany . |
| 10 | He also saw behind the President the smiling face of the DDI . |
| 11 | On the Unionist side men who had been fed with the heady talk of absolute resistance mobilized to resist what they now saw as the sell-out of the Southern Irish Unionists . |
| 12 | Sebastian seemed as cheerful as ever , but what she now saw as the unthinking , meaningless nature of his good nature irritated her almost beyond bearing . |
| 13 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 14 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 15 | For most there was little opportunity : the peasant rarely saw beyond the group of villages in which he was born ; many a townsman strayed only a little further ; monks were incarcerated in monasteries for life — and so forth . |
| 16 | There was a leather armchair and kitchen chairs which matched , and brass firedogs and a fender — in fact things that you never saw under the same roof in our district . |