Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] saw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's more than I saw of him . |
| 2 | I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to . |
| 3 | Well I , I would n't mind watching that , yes I , no I would n't I 'd think it 's silly , told you once I saw at the I could n't , this does n't want to stay up this double sided tape . |
| 4 | ‘ Once I saw in the studio one of the Target paintings , but it was the wrong year . |
| 5 | To cite O'Neill again , ‘ Some House members said they saw more of ( Reagan ) during his first four months in office than they saw of Jimmy Carter during his entire four years … . |
| 6 | He has no time for interfering adults , but I was not to be daunted ; I stuck to him until I saw for myself that he had no methods and did not teach , or rather , did not impose . |
| 7 | The trouble with the slogan , survival of the fittest , is that it gives the impression that evolution is all about creating a kind of super race , you know , like you saw in Nazi propaganda films , you know , blonde erm muscly beasts as it were , who were the th the sort of pinnacles of , of , of creation . |
| 8 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 9 | If you saw in the paper as I did . |
| 10 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 11 | Luke emphasised the insult by letting his gaze roam insolently over her robe , just as if he saw through it to the single garment she still had on underneath . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 15 | Children related to him so much because they saw in him an adult who behaved in the way that they did . |
| 16 | Holly smiled to himself , chuckled softly , because he saw in his mind the face of the man who had brought the food to the hatch , and he thought of the retribution that would fall on the cretin 's shoulders . |
| 17 | So , with the exception of the boy Matthew , who was marked with the same ruthless stamp as himself , he grudgingly tolerated the ‘ intruders ’ brought under his roof , and whom he had come to resent beyond reason ; perhaps because he saw in them his own failure as a family man . |
| 18 | This second possibility was the one I preferred , especially since I saw on reflection that such ripples might produce some of the effects of the first possibility . |
| 19 | When I saw from the papers that Miss Ella Shields , the original Burlington Bertie from Bow , was to appear for a week at the Pantages Theatre on Hastings Street , I made it a point of seeing the show . |
| 20 | And then we went on to and parked at the start of and walked up one side and back down the other side and that 's as much as I saw of it . |
| 21 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |
| 22 | An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind 's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom . |
| 23 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 24 | Her surprise turned rapidly to wariness when she saw on his desk a number of daily papers , all with photographs of her and Ace in them . |
| 25 | She never looked at a woman 's magazine after that , though she saw from their covers , displayed beside the supermarket till , that they had not changed , but went on churning out the same old stuff . |
| 26 | But that one As you saw from the the past papers that 's a usually quite a bit of marks go in for that . |
| 27 | The latter mode , as you saw in relation to the Earth ( section 2.1.16 ) , has the possible difficulty that the substances which would ultimately form the mantle may lose oxygen to iron , but until the present oxygen abundance of Mercury 's mantle is known it will not be known whether this possible difficulty applies . |
| 28 | But when it comes to the varieties of anthropology I get fussy , as you saw in Chapter l . |
| 29 | ‘ And so , ’ Mr Malik was saying , ‘ we observe the accumulation of gods , very much as one saw in pre-Islamic Medina . |
| 30 | As we saw under Beliefs ( see page 21 ) it is easy to fall prey to some recurring unrealistic thoughts or beliefs which cause you to feel upset whenever they are violated so , either while you are being hindered by an unproductive feeling or after an experience where you are hindered , or when you feel vulnerable to the onset of an unproductive feeling , ask yourself : ‘ How can I make more effective use of this present moment ? ’ |