Example sentences of "[Wh pn] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peaceful demonstrators were vulnerable if their espousal of an unpopular cause moved to violence a hostile crowd or those who saw the message as threatening or insulting . |
| 2 | A barman who saw the dance at Berwick 's Quarterbeck Club said last night : ‘ She was having a very enjoyable time and was clearly the life and soul of the party . |
| 3 | There were other professional counsellors who saw the Princess . |
| 4 | Sadly there is no description of the Princess at this period ; the only proper account of Roshanara to survive dates from very late on in her life ; it was written by Bernier , who saw the Princess 's marvellous train on its way from Delhi — perhaps from this garden — to Kashmir to escape the summer heat : |
| 5 | It was reported independently by four commercial airliners , who saw the mushroom erupt , expand to a diameter of 200 miles , well above 65,000 feet at an estimated 500 mph , thin out and disappear . |
| 6 | He is the only one who saw the monk 's face , by the altar lamp as they lifted the reliquary . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Er , hands up who saw the Horizon programme on Jeannie Okay , so so you do n't want to see it then do you really ? |
| 12 | Police want to talk to anyone who saw the lorry , the taxi or a white Cavalier SRi in the area earlier today . |
| 13 | Car hire girl Lorna Wilson , 30 , who saw the crash just yards from her office , said : ‘ The driver seemed to appear from nowhere just as the whole place went up in flames . |
| 14 | But they reckoned without the mood of the chairmen , who saw the committee 's proposal as an intolerable and misguided interference in the detail of their management policy . |
| 15 | Additionally there were protests from the Elf colonies in the Old World who saw the departure of the armies as a betrayal . |
| 16 | The first is that , contrary to what is implied in Harold Nicolson 's biography , Sir Herbert Samuel , who saw the King shortly after noon , was not the first to make the suggestion that there should be a National Government : the first suggestion came from the King himself . |
| 17 | That ‘ blatant behaviour ’ was confirmed by another old friend of the Duchess who saw the couple sharing an intimate dinner for two ‘ with their legs entwined under the table ’ in Chelsea 's exclusive L'Incontro restaurant earlier this year . |
| 18 | There were still people who saw the life of a modern university as ‘ some community of pure scholar-students pursuing their work regardless of its bearing on their subsequent careers , and of staff having the sole duty of inculcating appropriate habits of thought and advancing knowledge with no practical application ’ . |
| 19 | Low churchman versus high churchman ; philosopher of religion and science versus close student of the Bible ; radical divine versus enquiring conservative ; suspecter of orthodoxy versus a young man who saw the stature of the Catholic tradition . |
| 20 | Many of the Asian traders who saw the attack would n't be interviewed for fear of reprisals . |
| 21 | Detectives want to hear from anyone who saw the gunman and his accomplices . |
| 22 | The second is that the statutory services do not have the monopoly of altruism or the monopoly of occupying the high moral ground , and I think that those of you who saw the presentation given yesterday afternoon by Mike O'Reilly on the work that 's being done at Knowesouth , the private home he and his wife run , would have to concede that that was an excellent example of the kind of not only interesting , but the kind of pushing forward the boundaries of what can be done in different kinds of settings for people with dementia . |
| 23 | Those who saw the performance thought it memorable — Burton alone against the Establishment , the powerful or the oppressor : his most convincing role . |
| 24 | The officer who saw the vehicle being kept should be in a position to state the length of time he observed the vehicle being kept on a public road , but see ( B ) 2 of this offence regarding the length of time kept being immaterial . |
| 25 | Any witness who saw the incident and could identify the accused could prove this point . |
| 26 | A witness who saw the incident described the driver as white , about 25 years old , six feet tall , and of slim build with broad shoulders . |
| 27 | ‘ Ride on ’ can be proved by the police officer or witness who saw the offence . |
| 28 | Any witness who saw the offence could prove this point . |
| 29 | Over the ensuing years a battle was waged between those who saw the discretion present in supplementary benefit decision making as a necessary part of a flexible response to human need ( Titmuss , 1971 ) and the burgeoning welfare rights movement , which demanded genuine legal rights to income maintenance with equality of access to decision-making guides and judicial appellate procedures . |
| 30 | It soon became clear that there was a struggle going on within his party , between the Communists , who wanted violent measures , completely unscrupulous , and the more moderate Socialists , aided by one or two older leaders who saw the promise of Aung San . |