Example sentences of "saw [prep] [art] [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 | Here , following the banner of reform , led by the gentlemen of that most aristocratic Whig Government , led by Lord Grey , Lord Melbourne , Lord John Russell , they saw for a time before them the high road to a better and fairer ordering of society . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The grid screen is now shown , 45 squares wide and 38 squares high , as we saw for the intarsia chart printing . |
| 12 | Did n't she realise that he saw through every trick she used . |
| 13 | How did one saw through a brake cable anyway ? |
| 14 | They leaned over the sleeping figure and saw through the polythene tent the hand on the counterpane closed in a tight fist . |
| 15 | The heron profile that she saw through the grille . |
| 16 | The boy saw through the fanaticism and found that his sense of chivalry was excited . |
| 17 | He would saw through the brake cable . |
| 18 | He saw through the toadying , of course he did . |
| 19 | " I guess you saw through the governor 's speech last night , Chuck , did you — all that hypocritical talk about the civilizing mission ? " |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She looked up and saw through the smoke — Mr Petrie ! |
| 22 | One basic theoretical idea is the connection Freud saw between the development of the individual , ontogenesis , and that of the species , phylogenesis . |
| 23 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What they saw as a problem , he saw as a challenge . |
| 26 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 27 | The LDP forced it through its committee stages in the House of Representatives — the Lower House of the Diet — on Nov. 27 , thereby causing a brawl to erupt amongst legislators angry over what they saw as a flouting of established procedure . |
| 28 | In a preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , published in this year , he described the landscape of his childhood and speculated about the boy who remained within the adult and successful figure of Mark Twain — the boy who was called " Huck " and whom Eliot saw as a symbol of freedom like the Mississippi itself ; it was impossible for that boy r that river " to have a beginning or end — a career " . |
| 29 | For a short time entry was considered into the Communist International which the Left in the ILP saw as a continuation of the Second International of which the ILP had been an affiliate . |
| 30 | This plot gave expression to one of Asimov 's pet hates , ‘ pseudo-science ’ , which he saw as a threat to liberty . |