Example sentences of "he saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is true that he saw the Church in the form of a pyramid , as many people did , with authority flowing down from himself to cardinals , bishops and then to priests , then a Council had no place in any such scheme of things : it only confused the pattern of authority . |
| 2 | ‘ I think , ’ said Andrew Ray , ‘ he saw the kind of man he would like to have been had he been straight . |
| 3 | When he entered his house , he saw the portrait of himself that Basil Hallward had painted . |
| 4 | As soon as he was inside the garden he saw the couple hitting each other with chairs ; ‘ The woman hit harder and had the upper hand ’ . |
| 5 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 6 | He saw the King to the gates and , coming back , heard the clangour of Elfswitha 's malevolence before he arrived at the door of their chamber . |
| 7 | But soon Owen 's erstwhile disciple T. H. Huxley began to question the dinosaurs ' relationships to lizards ; he saw the closeness of birds to some reptiles , and inferred that at least some dinosaurs had gone on two legs rather than four , the Iguanodon among them . |
| 8 | Nehru wept when he saw the clause accepting safeguards . |
| 9 | Brunel made the broad gauge because he saw the advantage of stability , and making extra room for passengers |
| 10 | Auguste almost laughed as he saw the expression on the Prince of Wales 's face as a plateful of roast goose advanced towards him in the hands of James Pegg , followed by an endless procession , it seemed , of forcemeats , vegetables and gravies . |
| 11 | ‘ If you 're wakeful I thought you might like company in the shape of Emma — ’ He stopped , his eyes narrowing as he saw the expression on her face . |
| 12 | He saw the ball a few seconds earlier than other batsmen . ’ |
| 13 | He saw the ball hanging over the flag and let the club slide down through his hands , a sure sign that a pro likes his shot . |
| 14 | When he saw the ball trickling back towards his stumps , he used his left hand to sweep the ball away . |
| 15 | Homer Scott was delighted when he saw the building for the first time at the May Day meeting and even the course bookmakers who are not known for lavishing praise on anything , are impressed by what has been built . |
| 16 | One diplomat said he saw the referendum , proposed by an important ally of President Corazon Aquino , as ‘ a way to manoeuvre around the Senate block , to isolate the Senate as an elite that is unresponsive to public opinion ’ . |
| 17 | He saw the blade go in and then come out gleaming red with his blood . |
| 18 | No doubt , even at the end , as he saw the blade of the knife flash in the moonlight , he had assumed his killers would rob his corpse . |
| 19 | Past the dodgem cars , he saw the Dancing Fly . |
| 20 | In Layton he saw the splendour , and the viability , of the poetic destiny . |
| 21 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
| 22 | As he told Wolf he saw the mission 's task ‘ as one of formulating a constructive program of aid to help prevent in Southeast Asia a repetition of the circumstances leading to the fall of China ’ . |
| 23 | He saw the charcoal glowing . |
| 24 | Macmillan saw Polaris as an ideal strategic weapon acquired at a modest cost ; he saw the Nassau negotiations as a diplomatic and political triumph . |
| 25 | When he saw the cap badges he felt himself to be on home ground . |
| 26 | Then he saw the mullion windows were open . |
| 27 | Halfway across he imagined the water there again , he saw the lake fill up , some ghost of the ocean haunting him , and shuddered at the thought of drowning in such loneliness , in such heat . |
| 28 | Coming at it , at this angle on this hot evening , he saw the change vividly . |
| 29 | He saw the change in her expression ; antagonism replaced by … by fear ? |
| 30 | This time her laughter was richer , deeper , and when Li Yuan looked up again he saw the delight in her face . |