Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] saw [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This was difficult to understand for impassioned artists who saw Surrealism and Abstraction as struggling for the soul of modern art .
2 Most days I saw damage , people with huge problems , emotional , social , financial — sometimes self-inflicted , mostly just handed down to them .
3 Among the many places they saw action were Ploegsteert , Hebuterne , Somme , Le-Sars , Peronne , 3rd Battle of Ypres ( Pilkem Ridge , St Julien , Vimy ) .
4 They were alerted by neighbours who saw smoke and flames coming from their outhouse .
5 It was encouraging that the wives saw themselves as having an increasing role to play and it was equally encouraging that in many cases they saw training courses as the best way of acquiring new skills and knowledge .
6 Even during the Exclusion Crisis there were many conservative Whigs who saw Exclusion as the only way to preserve strong monarchy in England .
7 They were helped by provincial publishers who saw money in the subscription system and the growing market of women readers .
8 Television 's enormous shift of emphasis on to defence issues in the third week of the campaign correlated with a huge rise in the number of voters who saw defence as the Conservative Party 's main campaign theme , but with only a modest rise in the number of who wanted a defence debate .
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