Example sentences of "we saw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , we saw at the beginning that this was the principal reason for culture in the first place : it was a means of containing such anti-social antagonisms in what was , for a gelada-like hominid , a novel mode of subsistence which demanded considerable social cooperation , altruism and restraint . |
| 2 | Now as we saw at the last council meeting , where a very right and proper and honest and law abiding council and we do n't want to create a situation in which people are encouraged to break the law . |
| 3 | ‘ I need to reflect upon what we saw at the Tower . ’ |
| 4 | Like them men we saw on the newsreel , ai n't he ? ’ |
| 5 | You 'll , you 'll have noticed that er in reading that that it 's , it 's the part er on er Zeffirelli 's erm Jesus of Nazareth that erm that is actually what we saw on the film is actually what 's written here . |
| 6 | That 's like the one we saw on the telly a bat . |
| 7 | As we saw with the pre-sexological theories of perversion , condensation and displacement are strangely enabled by the view of perversion as an inimical threatening absence . |
| 8 | MY OWN researches show that many wartime stories still remain secret and , as we saw with the Ultra story , if no documents are available it is extremely difficult ( as Chapman Pincher found in 1959 ) to expose the truth . |
| 9 | As we saw with the Paddy Ashdown scandal raised during our last election , politicians everywhere seem to rely on mud-slinging instead of argument . |
| 10 | Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see . |
| 11 | As we saw with the Treasury , organisational culture will impact on budgetary behaviour . |
| 12 | The grid screen is now shown , 45 squares wide and 38 squares high , as we saw for the intarsia chart printing . |
| 13 | We heard that some rich kids just ignored their fines ; theirs will have been the Porsche 928s we saw about the place . |
| 14 | In our detailed responses to the Secretary of State of the 30th October 1991 and the 10th June 1992 we highlighted what we saw as the threat to strategic planning policies , embodied in the existing county structure plans , as a result of the creation of 23–25 relatively small unitary authorities . |
| 15 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 16 | The description fits the man we saw outside the opera the other night . |
| 17 | As we saw in the chapter dealing with rules , it is not enough for your punch to be an effective scoring technique ; it must be seen to be so , and this entails making its success obvious . |
| 18 | As we saw in the last chapter , the operation of discretion by the police is a particular fascination in the sociology of policing , but discretion is often viewed narrowly in terms of law : whether the police apply or omit the letter of the law . |
| 19 | We saw in the cemetery a pile of about 60–70 corpses , two days accumulation ( not reckoning the private burials ) , waiting to be tumbled into a pit , and also a pit full of other corpses . |
| 20 | We saw in the main street the corpse of a woman already gnawed by dogs ( people are beginning to be afraid of dogs ) . |
| 21 | We saw in the first Test the damage of which Gary Freeman , working behind dominant forwards , is capable ; in the second Test , behind a pack tackling itself to a standstill , Shaun Edwards dictated . |
| 22 | If they were not , then , as we saw in the echoes of this theory which can be found in Hobbes 's resolutio-compositive method , the proper order of demonstration would have been reversed . |
| 23 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 24 | In ballet , the Mariinsky ( or the Kirov , as we have known it since 1935 ) has an almost unassailable reputation , with the choreography of Marius Petipa as one of its foundations — as we saw in the pas de deux from Le Corsaire , danced brilliantly and poetically by Elvira Tarasova and Igor Zelensky , and in Diana and Actaeon , which highlighted the virile athleticism of Farukh Ruzimatov . |
| 25 | If being a real person implies consciously living before God , as we saw in the previous chapter , then the integrity of a man and woman living together needs the further consciousness of God in both their lives . |
| 26 | We saw in the first chapter how we can understand more about ourselves according to our type of personality . |
| 27 | As we saw in the example of the cleaner fish ( pages 186–7 ) , reciprocal altruism is not confined to members of a single species . |
| 28 | The problems of Kosovo , as we saw in the previous section , are mainly economic . |
| 29 | Feelings , as we saw in the entry under that heading ( see pages 66 to 69 ) , either help or hinder your behaviour . |
| 30 | As we saw in the last section , all shops offer a service to the customer , although the type of service may vary . |