Example sentences of "saw [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were helped by provincial publishers who saw money in the subscription system and the growing market of women readers . |
| 3 | Lalage looked into her drink , swirling and looking as if she saw money in the bottom of her glass . |
| 4 | I almost dropped the flowers when I saw Lisabeth on the phone in the hallway as I kicked the door shut . |
| 5 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Wishart frequently saw Minton in the company of his cousin Anna , the daughter of the poet Roy Campbell . |
| 11 | Osburn saw hope for the future in Englishmen mending their ways . |
| 12 | If he saw Doyle in the pub he 'd slide out of buying him a drink . |
| 13 | Linda saw ankle-boots beside the bed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Again I saw change as the enemy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He saw Frances in the mirror . |
| 19 | He happened to glance up and saw Beryl on the landing . |
| 20 | She raised Skogen to her face and through it she saw Ghost of the Tree turn a quizzical and penetrating look upon her . |
| 21 | " Henry was carrying his books , and suddenly he saw Sheila in the distance . " |
| 22 | A top critic , Jeffrey Taylor of The Mail on Sunday , saw rehearsals of the ballet , and said it contained erotic love scenes . |
| 23 | He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden . |
| 24 | In the 1750s , orangs from Sumatra reached Holland , but it was not until the 1850s that the English scientist Alfred Wallace ( see page 164 ) actually saw orangs in the wild and inevitably collected specimens by shooting them , the way that even the best naturalists obtained animals for study in those days . |
| 25 | While he spoke , he saw reactions in the child 's face . |
| 26 | The post of Director General for regional policy was established in 1968 , and the next year saw proposals by the Commission for the creation of regional aid instruments . |
| 27 | I never saw Moscow in the heyday of the great parades of May and November . |
| 28 | Durkheim 's investigations into religion , with their historic results , were prompted by the fact that he saw religion as the major source of values and , despite increasing secularisation , religion still plays an influential role in society 's moral codes . |
| 29 | Both saw action of the most extreme kind and both were captured by the Germans . |
| 30 | He saw action in the Pacific , was wounded and was awarded the Purple Heart , and always remained very proud of his Marine background . |