Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] saw [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ten minutes I saw a summary of the whole butcher 's shop of war . |
| 2 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 3 | Several times I saw a big bull , sometimes even two together . |
| 4 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 5 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 6 | Celebrities among the 2,000 fans who saw the Maple Leafs win a 6–5 victory included actresses Susan George , Fiona Fullerton , Patricia Hodge and Cherie Lunghi , and society hostess Ivana Trump . |
| 7 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 8 | Readers who saw the game on television will recall that Brooke did exactly as the law required and so the try was legal . |
| 9 | Many of the Asian traders who saw the attack would n't be interviewed for fear of reprisals . |
| 10 | The moment the words left her lips she saw the trap , but it was too late . |
| 11 | Eventually , authors of the calibre of Dashiell Hammett and Chandler moved on to producing full-length books , based often on their early material in the pulps and always with the hero , the person through whose eyes one saw the story , a private-eye , a shamus , a private investigator , a P.I . |
| 12 | In the woman 's eyes he saw a like recognition and knew his senses did not deceive him . |
| 13 | Opening his eyes he saw the blood flowing from his arm , from his own bite , blossoming against the snow . |
| 14 | Among the press of cars he saw a taxicab painted like a page from a newspaper and another advertising a brand of beer . |
| 15 | One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled . |
| 16 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
| 17 | She then returned to work for JS in 1992 at Watchmoor Park , on the deli counter , having been a customer throughout the decades which saw the development of supermarkets into the modern stores of today . |
| 18 | Of the 287 people who saw the Carlyle exhibition , 94% rated it as Very Good or Good ; 90% of the 237 visitors who saw the MacLean exhibition gave it similar ratings ; and 78% of the 147 visitors to the Skinner exhibition considered it Very Good or Good . |
| 19 | Cooney always seemed a reluctant fighter , a man more pushed into the business by parental desire and promoters who saw the advantage of his size — 6ft 7in — rather than his personal predicament . |
| 20 | Cooney always seemed a reluctant fighter , a man more pushed into the business by parental desire and promoters who saw the advantage of his size — 6ft 7in — rather than his personal predicament . |
| 21 | To her surprise , he turned the wheel towards the channel leading to the island , and as they motored slowly past one of the enormous posts she saw a name-plate on it . |
| 22 | The imagery of the ‘ black bomber , used in Handsworth was extended to the notion that there were groups of alienated and criminalized young blacks who saw the riots as a chance to engage in an ‘ orgy of looting ’ . |
| 23 | Little is still known of the designers and speculators of this part of the town 's growth , save that they were often little more than smallholders or jobbing builders who saw the possibility of some quick profits on their small capital . |
| 24 | The emergence of a science of ecology depended not so much on changing assumptions about Nature as upon the creation of a community ( or communities ) of researchers who saw the study of natural relationships as their primary goal . |
| 25 | That sport and , for that matter , entertainment may not be viable avenues from despair is less important than the fact that they were seen as such by groups who saw no alternatives . |
| 26 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 27 | Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye . |
| 28 | This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue . |
| 29 | For many years nobody saw a dislocation in the flesh , or perhaps ever expected to , but their hypothetical movements ( dislocations of like sign repel each other etc. ) and breeding habits ( when the union of two dislocations is blessed about five hundred new dislocations are suddenly released upon the crystal ) could be theoretically predicted and provided a superb intellectual exercise like three dimensional chess . |
| 30 | By way of contrast we may note that between 1939 and 1959 , years which saw a major debate and official investigation of the subject , there were only two major books . |