Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queerer books had been published and sold — at least , he saw them on bookstalls . |
| 2 | I saw them on telly at my mate 's house . |
| 3 | George , a former school truant and now a construction trainee , said : ‘ At least I did something … but the others , you saw them at school , just lazy . ’ |
| 4 | There 's about fifty Europeans on the island — including Americans — and there 's plenty of men anxious to do a bit of gardening , or women ready to earn a day 's wages doing the laundry — you saw them at work — or sewing . |
| 5 | August 1915 saw them at Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli campaign and they suffered heavy casualties at Chocolate Hill . |
| 6 | Now well let's have a look at this horse and another schedule because as I say he was trained in Ireland by Arthur and er we saw them at Punchestown back in April where he finished second to another of his rivals today Bishops Hall . |
| 7 | Then wickets tumbled , and sixteen were still needed to avert the follow-on when the eighth went down ; but Old with a bruised wrist , and Snow saw them to safety and the innings made 332 . |
| 8 | The reciprocity measures , as originally drafted in 1988 , had aroused particularly strong protests from the USA and from Japan , which saw them as part of a protectionist " fortress Europe " policy designed to exclude non-EC institutions . |
| 9 | An early interpretation saw them as barracks for troops used by Swegen Forkbeard to conquer England , with each house containing a ship 's crew . |
| 10 | Although land-occupations and a rash of urban strikes were spontaneous and largely uncoordinated , rightists saw them as evidence of the revolution they had predicted would follow a Popular Front victory . |
| 11 | There was no ease in the relationship any more : he saw them as strangers . |
| 12 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |
| 13 | Rather than seeing responses to questions as simple indicators of factual properties , these theorists saw them as data from which it was possible to make inferences about the dispositional and motivational character of social actors ' behaviours . |
| 14 | She saw them as emanations of his own tormented , neurotic , anally fixated personality , and nothing to do with herself . |
| 15 | By the time Woolley arrived in her ward she was turning into a slaughterhouse attendant : she no longer saw them as men but as damaged stock ; if they screamed it was not a sign of pain but a signal to fetch a doctor . |
| 16 | They saw them as contradictions , occasions for elaborated ironies , for indignation and anger . |
| 17 | Our notion of Indians has been conditioned by the frontier mentality that saw them as savages inhabiting the geographic void that civilisation would tame . |
| 18 | And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front . |
| 19 | Anyone who saw them with Soul II Soul will have some idea of what to expect , but not the whole story . |
| 20 | Nicholson saw them around Sunset Strip and for a time they were joined by Elvis Presley , who had seen Rebel Without a Cause forty-four times and could speak Dean 's lines word perfect . |
| 21 | Well I I saw them in Mill , but I did n't know which size , size you need actually I saw some in Mill . |
| 22 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |
| 23 | She could hardly bear to think she would never see this pretty place again , nor speak with the cheerful villagers , drink beer in María 's café and get hugs from the children when she saw them in Miguel 's clinic . |
| 24 | We saw them in Glasgow recently , and were the proudest of grandparents when Ewan consented to come for a walk with the two of us . |
| 25 | Tbilisi were good enough to win this tie on the pitch … everyone who saw them in Belfast on Wednesday knows that . |
| 26 | Though we children heard a lot about my mother 's nerves , we never really saw them in action . |
| 27 | We can test this if we compare the human character of Jesus to our own personalities , as we saw them in chapter one . |
| 28 | I saw them against Genoa and I was very impressed . |
| 29 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 30 | He saw me without surprise , with a small smile , almost a grimace , on his face . |