Example sentences of "saw [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially . |
| 2 | Translated as the historical purpose of the bourgeois , Marx saw money as the necessary stripping away of every vestment of the ancien régime , every personal relation of family and society , which would provide the essential foundation for the possibility of communism . |
| 3 | They were helped by provincial publishers who saw money in the subscription system and the growing market of women readers . |
| 4 | Lalage looked into her drink , swirling and looking as if she saw money in the bottom of her glass . |
| 5 | I almost dropped the flowers when I saw Lisabeth on the phone in the hallway as I kicked the door shut . |
| 6 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 7 | I first saw Salamanca at a certain moment of dusk when the setting sun still casts a deep red glow over the city 's rosy stone . |
| 8 | Freud saw attachment to the mother as becoming , during the early years of childhood , imbued with the emerging sexual impulses ; and the father rapidly becoming seen ( not usually consciously ) as an obstacle to gratification of these impulses . |
| 9 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 10 | She even imagined she saw Marc in the audience one night , his face just a pale blur beyond the footlights with all the others , but what would the jet-setting Marc Vila be doing in Yorkshire ? |
| 11 | Yet might there not have been some confused episode , something which , when Irina was much younger , had distressed her , appalled them both , something which neither of them in their childishness — for here Ludens saw Marcus as a child — had really understood ? |
| 12 | Others , however , objected to the replacement of the Schools Council by two unelected bodies ; they saw dangers in the minister ‘ surrounding himself by people of one opinion ’ , and in the ‘ centralized patronage ’ which was said to characterize the new arrangements , and they detected the eclipse of the values of curriculum pluralism for which the Schools Council had stood . |
| 13 | Wishart frequently saw Minton in the company of his cousin Anna , the daughter of the poet Roy Campbell . |
| 14 | Osburn saw hope for the future in Englishmen mending their ways . |
| 15 | In 1900 it denied that hysteria had ‘ anything to do with sexual passion , either with its excitement , suppression or gratification ’ , and in a discussion in 1914 a doctor saw hysteria as a product of inactivity in a section of the brain so that ‘ the less a hysterical patient likes any line of treatment , the more good it is likely to do if firmly applied . |
| 16 | If he saw Doyle in the pub he 'd slide out of buying him a drink . |
| 17 | Some of these saw Communism as a pretty serious threat to a way of life that included cricket , and for these people Hitler was more than a passing attraction . |
| 18 | Dulles , whose experience in foreign policy stretched back to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 , saw communism as an evil system which should not just be " contained " but positively " rolled back " . |
| 19 | Linda saw ankle-boots beside the bed . |
| 20 | Television 's enormous shift of emphasis on to defence issues in the third week of the campaign correlated with a huge rise in the number of voters who saw defence as the Conservative Party 's main campaign theme , but with only a modest rise in the number of who wanted a defence debate . |
| 21 | Again I saw change as the enemy . |
| 22 | It was important for this connection that the model of biological evolution used should be one that saw change as the cumulative product of the actions of individual organisms over many generations . |
| 23 | Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs . |
| 24 | He saw Frances in the mirror . |
| 25 | The moments they portray are the life of the next world , for the Egyptians saw paradise as an idealized version of their own lives along the banks of the Nile . |
| 26 | Following Andy 's directions , I saw climbers on a previously uncharted crag , which looked so big I began to run . |
| 27 | First , we shall look at the view of Dr L , ( at the time of interview , the head of department at B ) , who saw physics as a discipline essentially concerned with fundamental rules and laws : |
| 28 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |
| 29 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 30 | He happened to glance up and saw Beryl on the landing . |