Example sentences of "who saw [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it and I made it back , but the friend who saw me onto the train was so concerned at my appearance , she phoned my daughter . |
| 2 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 3 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 4 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 5 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 6 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 7 | It was Agnes who saw them to the door , and then into their car . |
| 8 | Anyone who saw them with Soul II Soul will have some idea of what to expect , but not the whole story . |
| 9 | Jane , who had a natural feel for mood and background which complemented the clothes , swam more than competently and her black and white images of windswept models against bleak moors or stark beaches created for many who saw them on the white shop walls their indelible image of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 10 | They were great champions and everyone who saw them on the ice thought they were lovers . |
| 11 | Tbilisi were good enough to win this tie on the pitch … everyone who saw them in Belfast on Wednesday knows that . |
| 12 | He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially . |
| 13 | Baker 's part in such compromises angered conservatives in the country who saw him as a closet liberal subverting the president 's conservative instincts . |
| 14 | Encouraged by friends who saw him as a Nonconformist Lord Hugh Cecil ( later Baron Quickswood , q.v . ) , |
| 15 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 16 | His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s . |
| 17 | Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons . |
| 18 | He had done no regular television work since appearing as Byron in the mid-Sixties , but a BBC producer who saw him on stage in No Sex , Please — We 're British realized that he was perfect for the lead role in a script submitted to him by a new TV comedy writer , Raymond Allen . |
| 19 | Det Chief Insp Barry Hill said : ‘ Anyone who knows Mr McEvoy or who saw him on Saturday May 23 is asked to ring Middlesbrough 326326 and ask for the Hartlepool incident room . ’ |
| 20 | He brought a very detailed knowledge and understanding of the IT industry to the job together with great profession competence that was apparent to all who saw him in action . |
| 21 | Earning the obedience and respect of the women in the house , who saw her as no better than they were , was yet another obstacle . |
| 22 | Any smoothy who saw her as a soft touch was in for a shock . |
| 23 | She 's claiming damages from three GPs who saw her as a baby more than thirty years ago : Dr Kenneth Saunders , Dr Patrick Smyth , and a Dr Novakowski , who has since died . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just that the only person who saw her on Saturday was the Minister — Mr Hawick . ’ |
| 25 | Or talk to anyone who saw her on one of the nights when she was worth seeing , and ask them what it was like . |
| 26 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 27 | Also , people have been saying to me , ‘ My brother 's girlfriend 's aunt says that she spoke to someone who saw you on ‘ News at Ten ’ the other day ! ’ |
| 28 | Then we had a telephone call from a man who saw you in a hotel here . ’ |
| 29 | A similar point was made by the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke , who saw it as an insoluble mystery . |
| 30 | The Centre for Policy Studies was only one of a series of institutions which now began to churn out papers , briefings , and a stream of serious young advisers in dark suits who saw it as their role to steer the party away from the errors of its past ways . |