Example sentences of "saw [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosie saw through her friend . |
| 2 | Susan shut her eyes and saw through her monster 's . |
| 3 | ‘ Sensibly the jury saw through your wickedness , ’ added the judge . |
| 4 | For the first time she saw through his mask of precocious intelligence and saw how vulnerable he was , how frail in spite of all . |
| 5 | The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced . |
| 6 | The developers hope the scheme will return Cowley to the kind of economic success it saw during its motoring heyday . |
| 7 | The following are my reflections on what I saw during my time in the Philippines of the efforts to build a Philippine health movement . |
| 8 | On these occasions the gloves came off as the Service most adversely affected sought support in Parliament , in the media , from industry , and from the electorate , in what it saw as its fight for survival . |
| 9 | If it was not free from unwelcome intervention the papacy could not be active in what it saw as its role . |
| 10 | The painting was agreed to by Luce in part to recompense for what she saw as her misjudgment of her dead friend . |
| 11 | Had she merely stated that she did not wish to have a baby , she would have been considered failing in what she saw as her role in life . |
| 12 | He built roads , schools , hospitals , and sent students abroad for further education , most to France and some to Germany , which many Iranians still saw as their friend simply because it was the traditional enemy of both Britain and Russia . |
| 13 | She said , ‘ What 's this ? ’ it did n't matter to her what it was — a piece of stone in the hearth — just something to talk about — an embarrassed need for words to cover what she saw as his rejection . |
| 14 | ‘ You see , maman , I have to remind him to say ‘ we ’ , ' Richard said importantly , pressing home what he saw as his advantage . |
| 15 | He continued to regret the limitation on his career development imposed by what he saw as his confinement to Art teaching . |
| 16 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 17 | Breeze looked up , meaning to expostulate , but was silenced by what she saw in her sister 's face . |
| 18 | But she could not express in words what she saw in her head . |
| 19 | She also wore a new lipstick called Chloe , which took some attention away from the slight sallowness she imagined she saw in her complexion , and a splash of light cologne . |
| 20 | She saw in her mind the woman who sat in the same seat day after day . |
| 21 | And yet it was not the face of her customer that she saw in her mind , but the strong lean jaw and the dark unfathomable eyes of a stranger . |
| 22 | Briefly she saw in her mind a slender girl walking the shore , beating her hands one against the other in bitter rebellion . |
| 23 | She saw in her mind 's eye rude naked women and flames as upright and stiff as those on the covers of boxes of fireworks . |
| 24 | It was of no help to her inner disquiet , as she left her room , that she saw in her mind 's eye a picture of the aristocratic-looking Ven Gajdusek . |
| 25 | She loved Sharpe , yet she saw in her lover the embodiment of those ghouls who had been used to scare her into childhood obedience . |
| 26 | Mrs Rumney looked at me in silence for a few moments and I saw in her face the dawning of relief and hope . |
| 27 | She did n't answer : Nick saw in her face the struggle she always had with herself before she went in the water . |
| 28 | He saw in her face what he expected to see . |
| 29 | She had hated the pity she thought that she saw in her mama and papa 's eyes , and when her papa had suggested that she might like to spend a year in London with her Uncle Orrin , be presented at court , meet his old friend the Prince of Wales , now King Edward VII , again , she had agreed with alacrity — she , who had hated being parted from her mama and papa . |
| 30 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |