Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] saw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 2 | Strange advert I saw in the week it it was erm |
| 3 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 4 | She marvelled at her friend and abhorred the expression of disgust she saw on Demian 's face . |
| 5 | This rococo element , together with the poplar 's symbolic identity as the ‘ tree of liberty ’ , reinforced the view of one nationalistic critic who saw in Monet 's poplars ‘ all the grace , all the spirit , all the youth of our land ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Antwerp were amateurs compared to the play-acting we saw from Apoel at Clandeboye , ’ said Crowe . |
| 7 | Appropriately , he has sent us a letter about a piece he saw in last Thursday 's Diary . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's nothing , ’ he said , frowning at the blood he saw on his fingers . |
| 9 | In 1985 , the British Psychological Society expressed the opposition it saw between women and good theory , when it claimed , as partial grounds for its refusal of a Psychology of Women Section , that the psychology of women ‘ lacks the necessary [ theoretical and methodological ] coherence to be the basis of a scientific Section of the Society ’ ( Newman 1985 : 2 ) , and questioned whether this subdiscipline had the range which a full Section of the Society requires . |
| 10 | He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post . |
| 11 | Clench ( 1947 ) discounted the idea of imbricata being a separate variety at all because of the complete intergradation he saw between the forms . |
| 12 | ‘ It is a species which will ever live in my memory , from its being the first large petrel I saw after crossing the line , and from a somewhat curious incident that then occurred . |
| 13 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 14 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 15 | Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon . |
| 16 | ‘ But the style of rugby I saw in August over there , and that we have seen on their tour of France and England , indicates that before very long the Springboks will be up there with the best . |
| 17 | I yearned towards the mystical earnestness which saw through the outer facing of existence in a oneness and blinding intensity which went direct to some essence of being . |
| 18 | The woman who came in to clean and the old boy who saw to the garden had been instructed to call him ‘ Mr ’ Lewis and he felt very much the heir . |
| 19 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 20 | Of course that had been mostly created by the lack of money , but the instability she saw in Joe was n't that kind of lack , it was something she could n't put her finger on . |
| 21 | Alternatively , you might have found yourself without the ready money you needed to snap up a bargain — like that washing machine you saw in the sales . |
| 22 | That 's the young lady you saw at Wuthering Heights , Mr Lockwood . |
| 23 | However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges . |
| 24 | When confronted with the large body of unknown work they saw in 1923 ( the brochure stated that ninety pieces on display had never been shown before ) , critics were obviously perplexed , and they sought its meaning , especially the meaning of O'Keeffe 's abstractions , in the fact that the artist was a moan . |
| 25 | The provocative , practised performer they saw on stage that night was a niece to be proud of . |
| 26 | Here is an American artist writing about his dismay at the work he saw at Paris in 1831 : |
| 27 | The next time she consulted her watch she saw with surprise that it was nearly six o'clock . |
| 28 | She dared not believe in the warmth and tenderness she saw in Matthew 's eyes . |
| 29 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 30 | At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV . |