Example sentences of "[adv] saw [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not at the party , from a woman who suddenly saw a way to wreak her spite not only on Parkin but on his ambitious young lover ? |
| 2 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 3 | As Zen came through the door he suddenly saw an opening and lunged forward , so that for the next thirty seconds or so he was unable to reply to his visitor 's question . |
| 4 | I looked at the altar ; in the orange glow of the valves , I suddenly saw the vision , the nightmare of the well-shaft — there was the huge seated figure , and , apparently , sitting on its lap , the dark shrivelled form of the Virgin . |
| 5 | Because they had both anticipated , not a fight , but a long , hard ride neither of them was wearing a hauberk and as William levelled his lance Richard suddenly saw the danger he was in . |
| 6 | He struggled with Manchester United , too , until he suddenly saw the light and realised he was going nowhere . |
| 7 | ‘ I merely saw no need to rectify it . ’ |
| 8 | In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ But I told ye I only saw a shadow . ’ |
| 10 | I loved the trees , but having this forest next door , made sure our garden only saw the sun as he moves from east to west early in the morning . |
| 11 | Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem . |
| 12 | She swung round , but only saw the myriad jostling headlights behind them . |
| 13 | The autumn of 1529 not only saw the fall from power of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , who had dominated religious and political life in England for the previous fifteen years , but also the beginning of the first session of the Reformation Parliament . |
| 14 | But she only saw the girl who had now returned her full attention to the case . |
| 15 | ‘ In the hope of following them to the base , since we do n't know where the land entrance is — I only saw the inlet that allows ships in . ’ |
| 16 | No , that was on B B C Two but I ha only saw the beginning of that and then I turned over to watch the one |
| 17 | He said but David only saw the surface . |
| 18 | ‘ I only saw the driver but there could have been others inside the wagon . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He only saw the shintiyan ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Because I only saw the car ? ’ |
| 21 | as a last sort of erm two days of the sale or something , they have their special offer next week or fifty percent off everything or something I feel sorry for these places really , that do you know it 's funny I only saw the car immediately in front of this grey one in there must of been a dip there because there 's two cars in front of me |
| 22 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 23 | We only saw the adult shearwaters at sea and they looked a bit like a small Manx shearwater , but with a brownish tinge to the upper parts . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's all very well you saying that , but do you realise that Micky only saw the script ten days ago ? |
| 25 | The Economist sensibly saw an electricity tax as a way of resolving this problem , but , with the Conservative opposition ready to taunt the Government with unfairly raising prices , the prospects of a rational price policy were not good . |
| 26 | The formation of the Film Society in 1925 , which aimed to make British filmmakers aware of the creative possibilities of the medium by screening the most artistically adventurous films being made in Russia , Germany and elsewhere , had caused some confusion in the commercial film industry , which rightly saw the Film Society 's platform as a blast against the prevailing aesthetic orthodoxies . |
| 27 | THE film distributors obviously saw a hit on their hands with the cartoon FREDDIE AS F.R.O.7 ( Cert U ; General ) because its sequel is already in production . |
| 28 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 29 | one of them said , you know , he said how , how the hell how the hell can they say which directions the fire 's coming from ? but they , I mean some of them were saying like this mate he run out , he was going across this patch of open space and the soldier obviously saw a soldier and as he did that apparently he got shot through there and out the other side of him . |
| 30 | She obviously saw no threat in Lucien . |