Example sentences of "we saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that war we saw the rise of communism and fascism and of Hitler . |
| 2 | Later we saw the Duke of Edinburgh 's yawl , Bloodhound . |
| 3 | All went well until we saw the cow which had originally smashed the crush . |
| 4 | ‘ We saw the King . |
| 5 | " We saw the king at once , 'said Agger later . |
| 6 | Early in March we saw the film 55 Days at Peking . |
| 7 | What I usu , what I usually do is turn the always when I get up like when Nick and I saw the , we saw the film |
| 8 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |
| 9 | ‘ We could n't believe it when we saw the size of the hole it had fallen down , it must have slipped backwards and was just small enough to slip in . ’ |
| 10 | That 's why we were so surprised when we saw the income from the gate . |
| 11 | Then we saw the sky burst into red , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Almost immediately , as they disappeared behind the buildings of Valetta , we saw the flash followed by the crump of bursting , and the black clouds of smoke rising vertically into the still air . |
| 13 | ‘ We saw the Worm . ’ |
| 14 | The car took us to the Monument , and then we saw the Worm . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's only since we saw the video that we found out whose boot it was . |
| 16 | Looking back from here along the river , we saw the boar . |
| 17 | We saw the biscuit |
| 18 | Both writers make light of this crossing from Fort Augustus to the middle of Glenmoriston , even though it must have proven their most arduous stage so far — eleven miles of high , hard going , ‘ cut in traverses ’ as Johnson says , ‘ so that as we went upon a higher stage , we saw the baggage following us below in a contrary direction . ’ |
| 19 | We saw the necessity to make an immediate impression on the new tribe , since we would be dealing with them soon enough . |
| 20 | Yeah , and then we saw the man |
| 21 | erm We saw the beginning of the factory , industrialization , big manufacturers where lots of people worked and where cloth could be churned out at a very fast rate , and therefore , cloth was cheaper . |
| 22 | We saw the foundationalist distinction between inferentially and non-inferentially justified beliefs mirrored in the verificationist distinction between strongly and weakly verifiable statements . |
| 23 | We saw the moon appear and disappear , veiled by clouds . |
| 24 | We saw the anniversary of the Rainhill trials , with the large range of locomotives exhibited there , and runs by the classic locomotives that have survived into preservation , many of them on the Marches line . |
| 25 | Soon after that we saw the tail lights of Danny 's truck in the distance and in no time at all we were right behind it . |
| 26 | What the big long one it was , we saw the price of it . |
| 27 | When we saw the outline of a ship in the distance , we rowed towards it . |
| 28 | We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ said Farag , ‘ we saw the ghaffir coming . |
| 30 | At the beginning of February we saw the transfer of our bag production to Exeter . |