Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all buy goods on impulse sometimes — simply because we saw them on the shelf of the shop . |
| 2 | You saw them on the television — they never gave up hope , campaigning and running lonely vigils in the long nights . |
| 3 | Jane , who had a natural feel for mood and background which complemented the clothes , swam more than competently and her black and white images of windswept models against bleak moors or stark beaches created for many who saw them on the white shop walls their indelible image of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 4 | They were great champions and everyone who saw them on the ice thought they were lovers . |
| 5 | and I 'd had a and er they , I never saw them on the floor . |
| 6 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 7 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 8 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 9 | Saw them at the same time , change of address . |
| 10 | Well I saw them at the , er round the corner at Mount Man Road , on that estate |
| 11 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 12 | He saw them to the door but when they rode past a minute later , it was already shut . |
| 13 | It was Agnes who saw them to the door , and then into their car . |
| 14 | Hemmings nodded and Elaine pulled herself from her chair and saw them to the door . |
| 15 | They stood to leave and as an afterthought Cobalt got up , too , and saw them to the door . |
| 16 | Jenny saw them to the door , kissed Rachel . |
| 17 | In Themis she stressed the need for group rather than individual values in conducting life and saw them as the foundation of religion . |
| 18 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 19 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 20 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 21 | Tabitha saw them through the viewport : silhouettes of black on purple , scrambling up into the hangar and clinging , chittering , to the knobbly brown walls . |
| 22 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 23 | He came to the station and saw them into the carriage . |
| 24 | I saw them from the window and called to them that I would tell the police who they were . |
| 25 | Doubtless they describe the hard life of the villager and the poverty of his surroundings as Crabbe saw them : but he was not a peasant , as Clare was , and he saw them from the outside as harsh , ugly and wretched . |
| 26 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
| 27 | I saw them from the penthouse bar |
| 28 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 29 | You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point . |
| 30 | You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point . |