Example sentences of "saw [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |
| 2 | Ever since Tug opened his eyes and saw Doyle in front of the door , things had been different from the other mornings . |
| 3 | In small group discussions , happily married men with children clearly saw fidelity as part of their lives ; although not immune to other women 's charms , they were not prepared to jeopardize what they had for the sake of a night of passion . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Durkheim saw signs of hope . |
| 5 | It was a chilly evening when I left London via Paddington for Bedford , and for the first time I saw signs of panic . |
| 6 | What annoyed me when I saw Ochs on stage in productions at that time was that he was played as a grotesque , everything greatly exaggerated . |
| 7 | This was based on the research of Nesta Webster , the grand dame of British conspiracy theory , who saw Jews in alliance with other subversive forces , as being behind all the ills of the modern world , from the threats to the British Empire through to the nudity movement . |
| 8 | Mr Christie , in an exclusive interview with TODAY , said at the time : ‘ When I saw Sue in prison , almost the first thing she said to me was that the sentence was wrong . ’ |
| 9 | Develop will be erm , shown , but it is not about running it 's about medieval Shrewsbury , many towns have these , the Yorvik one 's been spectacularly successful , and has been copied in places like Canterbury for those that saw Songs of Praise last night , with even , erm , it is evident that this will be a new visitor attraction for the town with a generation of jobs , permanent jobs in , in that er , facility , it will improve the erm , appearance of main entrance into the town centre , very important in terms of attracting other people in the future , unfortunately the Borough Council have n't quite got enough money , or they tell us . |
| 10 | Among the items which therefore never saw light of day was one in which I suggested that there were individual candidates of all the parties in different parts of the country whom one might be tempted to vote for on purely personal grounds . |
| 11 | On the shelves of a tall dresser , she saw tins of coffee and chocolate biscuits and a collection of Twinings teas ranging from Darjeeling , through English Breakfast to Lapsang and Rose Pouchong . |
| 12 | The Edinburgh-managed trust , which invests for capital growth in the stock markets of the Pacific Rim , excluding Japan , saw NAV per share rise from 297.2p to 378.7p in the 12 months to 28 February . |
| 13 | Weber also saw ownership of wealth as an important criterion for distinguishing classes . |
| 14 | Douin saw advantages in component supply as well as the potential to provide the car with more space and less noise and vibration . |
| 15 | Craig looked into his mother 's white face and saw lines of pain etched around her mouth . |
| 16 | I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze . |
| 17 | Sunday saw guests from Network SouthEast , sponsors of the Buckingham Railway Centre , entertained in the centre 's Victorian-built dining car which was once part of the Royal Train . |
| 18 | Police inspector Alex from Mapperley said he last saw Helen at bedtime on the second of November . |
| 19 | A few minutes later while she was pinning up her hair before having her bath , she heard the sound of horses ' hooves and saw Matthew with Bunny Chaloner by his side ride out . |
| 20 | Many other yards throughout the BR network saw reductions in activity as a result of the continued trend towards unit or ‘ block ’ train working . |
| 21 | Forcing his way through a gap in a hedge , he caught his hand on a thorn and saw beads of blood ooze from a long scratch . |
| 22 | ‘ It was an extremely popular programme and we always saw eye to eye about it . |
| 23 | As Bailey said , the two of them never saw eye to eye . |
| 24 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 25 | For some reason , we never saw eye to eye . |
| 26 | Or wait till tomorrow night or , Joan phoned this morning and oh I s I saw Tom in town yesterday . |
| 27 | More and more , he saw importance in experience . |
| 28 | Drudy ( 1978 ) saw changes in agriculture as contributing significantly to population loss even in relatively prosperous rural areas such as north Norfolk . |
| 29 | The researchers also saw changes in particle distribution and that the changes in auroral formation are different at the centre . |
| 30 | And in 1836 a deputation of Birmingham reformers saw O'Connell on apprenticeship ; they could already assume help from Birmingham and Black Country MPs . |