Example sentences of "saw [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We heard that some rich kids just ignored their fines ; theirs will have been the Porsche 928s we saw about the place . |
| 2 | In the end the NL did become demonstrably pro-Conservative and saw off the IML challenge , but divisions like this played their part in ensuring that the British Navy League was never as large or influential as its German counterpart . |
| 3 | Start with the length of guttering attached to the downpipe and saw off the gutter bolts ( unless they can be unscrewed ) . |
| 4 | Saw off the tap from the large plastic screw cap , insert the bung and the airlock . |
| 5 | The spin of Cant and introduction of Grainger saw off the danger posed by Roxwell 's Beard and Mizen and the runs dried up , giving OC 's a 74-run win . |
| 6 | An exciting game at Heathfield saw Dawn Nicholson top score on 22 points for the home team as they saw off the challenge of Shildon Aces by 68 points to 47 . |
| 7 | Saw off the waste close to the lines , then finish the outside angles by planing , and the inside angle by careful paring with a very sharp chisel , which must be wider than the thickness of the material . |
| 8 | If this is not possible , saw off the end of a cap iron . |
| 9 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 10 | The grid screen is now shown , 45 squares wide and 38 squares high , as we saw for the intarsia chart printing . |
| 11 | They leaned over the sleeping figure and saw through the polythene tent the hand on the counterpane closed in a tight fist . |
| 12 | The heron profile that she saw through the grille . |
| 13 | The boy saw through the fanaticism and found that his sense of chivalry was excited . |
| 14 | He would saw through the brake cable . |
| 15 | He saw through the toadying , of course he did . |
| 16 | " I guess you saw through the governor 's speech last night , Chuck , did you — all that hypocritical talk about the civilizing mission ? " |
| 17 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 18 | She looked up and saw through the smoke — Mr Petrie ! |
| 19 | One basic theoretical idea is the connection Freud saw between the development of the individual , ontogenesis , and that of the species , phylogenesis . |
| 20 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 21 | A belated attempt at abdomen-straining brought it swimming back into fuzzy focus , but that dial was all I saw during the remainder of an interminable fast-jet loop . |
| 22 | She had none of that innocence or boundless enthusiasm that the Princesse always saw as the stamp of the American girl . |
| 23 | At the same time , however , there also began , notably in the US , that ‘ motorization ’ of the world which Schumpeter ( 1939 , p.167 ) saw as the stimulus for a new expansionist phase in the capitalist economy ; and more generally , the first indications of the emergence of a mass production/mass consumption society . |
| 24 | It has often seemed to me that the combination of boredom after intense campaigning and the only alternative offered — luxurious idleness — was indeed reminiscent of what the censorious historians of the late Roman Republic saw as the existence which sapped the fibre of Hannibal 's army when in winter quarters in Campania after Can nae . |
| 25 | To him , the " checks and balances " of Natural Selection were only some of the forces operating in what he saw as the evolution of spirit or mind through matter . |
| 26 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 27 | ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’ |
| 28 | They protested that the labelling of SM as fascist trivialized the real fight against fascism , and condemned what they saw as the policing of sexual identity by LASM . |
| 29 | In Chile , Pablo Neruda was an established poet with a continent-wide reputation before his conversion to Communism under the impact of the Spanish Civil War — particularly the murder of García Lorca , whom he saw as the bearer of the spirit of Republican Spain . |
| 30 | His aims included rectifying what he saw as the lack of information on derived publications , and on the time differences between thesis completion and publication . |