Example sentences of "saw [noun prp] [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 | I almost dropped the flowers when I saw Lisabeth on the phone in the hallway as I kicked the door shut . |
| 3 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Wishart frequently saw Minton in the company of his cousin Anna , the daughter of the poet Roy Campbell . |
| 9 | If he saw Doyle in the pub he 'd slide out of buying him a drink . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He saw Frances in the mirror . |
| 12 | He happened to glance up and saw Beryl on the landing . |
| 13 | " Henry was carrying his books , and suddenly he saw Sheila in the distance . " |
| 14 | Rather than pub landlord or beanery boss , Lorne saw Gary as a celebrity restaurateur . |
| 15 | He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden . |
| 16 | I never saw Moscow in the heyday of the great parades of May and November . |
| 17 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 18 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I saw Travis over the weekend , ’ Leith plunged . |
| 20 | Christina saw Edward about the hotel for the next few days . |
| 21 | Eden , who in pre-war days had fought a losing battle in British politics against the appeasement of the dictators , saw Nasser as the reincarnation of Mussolini , if not of Hitler ; and in consequence , tried to use a sledge-hammer to crack a nut . |
| 22 | As the bus pulled away , he saw Vasco through the window . |
| 23 | When she reached the top of the stairs and turned to descend she saw Simon on the hall phone and hesitated , wondering . |
| 24 | St Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) saw Spain as a Christian land , in which the separate identities of Goth and Roman were no longer of any but historical interest . |
| 25 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 26 | This letter implies that Richardson saw Leapor as a poet of genuine merit . |
| 27 | Jed saw Carol at the end of the corridor and began to walk towards her . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw Melody through the window . |
| 29 | An eye-witness saw Verri in the back seat gesturing towards the open telephone line and died shortly afterwards . |
| 30 | David saw ACSS as a pressure group ( ‘ Not like Greenpeace . |