Example sentences of "he saw [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , what he saw outside the window had too much potency , too much spell-binding sweetness for him to turn his back on it . |
| 2 | Did n't she realise that he saw through every trick she used . |
| 3 | He saw through the toadying , of course he did . |
| 4 | He saw through the cabins , the holds and the ballast bilges . |
| 5 | He saw about a dozen street ruffians trailing them through the streets . |
| 6 | Clench ( 1947 ) discounted the idea of imbricata being a separate variety at all because of the complete intergradation he saw between the forms . |
| 7 | The playwright St John Ervine was standing nearby and described what he saw to the Daily Mail : |
| 8 | He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post . |
| 9 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 10 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 11 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 12 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |
| 13 | Turning , he saw at the end of the cul-de-sac a police-car . |
| 14 | But I know what he saw at the time — three mere candle-flames and three mere shadows . |
| 15 | She took off her hat and laid it on the table , and he saw with a sense of shock that her hair was white down the line of the parting where the tinting had grown out . |
| 16 | It was as if two palms had been placed against the frail skin and forced it upwards so that he saw with a shock of premonitory recognition the shine of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 17 | It was , he said , ‘ more Draconian than any deselection committee ’ , affecting people 's future in what he saw as a ‘ most sad process ’ . |
| 18 | In the 1720s , having become disillusioned with what he saw as a decline in the moral and spiritual standards of European culture , he formed the project of founding a college in Bermuda for the sons of English settlers and natives , both from Bermuda and the American mainland . |
| 19 | All I would be was a punchbag for his escaping fury , the entity he saw as a new unbearable threat to his dominance in Tremayne 's stable ; the interloper , usurper , legitimate target . |
| 20 | This plot gave expression to one of Asimov 's pet hates , ‘ pseudo-science ’ , which he saw as a threat to liberty . |
| 21 | Paddy Ashdown advocated a ’ Citizens ' Britain ’ of free , participating , secure individuals in place of what he saw as a ‘ Citadel Britain ’ of oppressed , stressed people and a closed political system . |
| 22 | He made it his golden rule never to attack the Tories without attacking Labour , to keep equidistant between the two parties , to declare constantly that he was appalled by the thought of coalition with either , and would only undertake this under what he saw as a clear ( if only mathematical ) directive from the voters . |
| 23 | The pines in the wood , where Uncle Hilbert 's hunt-terrier Blaze was the last creature laid to rest , he saw as a useful and lucrative crop . |
| 24 | Sinatra blew his top and accused both Lawfords of covering up what he saw as a vendetta being waged by Bobby against him . |
| 25 | What they saw as a problem , he saw as a challenge . |
| 26 | Pilger was disgusted by what he saw as a load of hand-wringing , indecisive amateurs . |
| 27 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 28 | The acting he saw as a boy was at the local cinema , popularly known as the ‘ Cach ’ — the ‘ Shithouse ’ . |
| 29 | What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance , within society , of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion , which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity . |
| 30 | He became more concerned with specialization within a given environment , a process that he saw as a consequence of the struggle between the different inhabitants of that environment . |