Example sentences of "saw the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two students , Alan and Paul , both very successful physicists , saw the lab work as a ‘ game ’ which has to be played . |
| 2 | Investors who bought on the strength of this pitch saw the share price drop . |
| 3 | In Adonis Attis Osiris , Frazer saw the goddess Mefitis as personifying ‘ mephitic vapours ’ and described her temple ‘ where the exhalations … were of so deadly a character that all who set foot on the spot died ’ . |
| 4 | He dealt a nearby Tree a rather contemptuous blow with the flat of his hand and Floy saw the Tree trunk quiver under the impact . |
| 5 | Apart from using subtle ways to show his disapproval of her , he saw the redundancy exercise initiated by the government of Tanzania as the perfect excuse and a legitimate cover for her dismissal . |
| 6 | Past the dodgem cars , he saw the Dancing Fly . |
| 7 | I saw the knife flash , a cold gleam as the man swung his arm back to strike at Ward 's belly . |
| 8 | 1970 and early 1971 saw the Ulster crisis deepen as the government stumbled on , alternating promises of reform with heavy-handed repression . |
| 9 | Rolling over a little — at great cost in terms of pain — Patrick saw the Lynx helicopter hovering a hundred feet above the adjacent dell . |
| 10 | But when she saw the church clock she realised she was too early for the bus — nearly three-quarters of an hour too early . |
| 11 | Alexandra stood between them and looked down the lane , sunk between high fields , and saw the church tower rising among leafless trees and the blue slate roofs that clustered round it . |
| 12 | March , 1991 saw the support vessel ‘ Valiant Service ’ arrive in the port of Naples for mobilisation of specialist positioning equipment , project management and survey personnel as well as subcontractor , Eastport 's deep water sonar systems , remotely operated vehicle ( ROV ) and recovery equipment . |
| 13 | The essence of this programme was constitutional reform , but , in addition , de Gaulle committed the Rassemblement to a theoretically radical scheme of profit-sharing and worker participation in management ( which he termed " association capital-travail " ) and to a vaguely-worded economic liberalism , whose aim was clearly to capitalize on popular frustration with the continuing economic hardships ( 1947 saw the bread ration reduced on two occasions ) . |
| 14 | She saw the hotel porter preparing to carry her bags from the post chaise . |
| 15 | He saw the colour flow back into her face . |
| 16 | Jess saw the colour mount in the lean face , heard him say : ‘ He 's a right to it , sir . |
| 17 | On Saturday , TV viewers saw the princess comment crossly about Olympic crowd behaviour . |
| 18 | They saw the election coverage being presented predominantly in competitive terms , like a horse race , with predictions about likely winners and losers . |
| 19 | The first finalist has emerged in the Haslemere Combination League , Admirals ‘ B ’ defeated Grange ‘ B ’ by a margin of 13 points ( plus handicap ) in a match which saw the home team 's men that little bit stronger than the visitors . |
| 20 | He was in all the dailies , and you probably saw the TV coverage . |
| 21 | It was a great thing the other day when I saw the combine harvester coming up the glen . |
| 22 | President Mitterrand does not see the European Council , as de Gaulle saw the Fouchet plan , as a means of stalling European integration . |
| 23 | By contrast , the energetic and efficient Clinton campaign ended with a flourish which saw the candidate visit eight states ( seven of which he later won ) in the final 29 hours before polling . |
| 24 | We saw the foundationalist distinction between inferentially and non-inferentially justified beliefs mirrored in the verificationist distinction between strongly and weakly verifiable statements . |
| 25 | The mid-1960s saw the mill part of BP Chemicals , raw materials for the site being stored in a number of locations including old mills at Dudbridge and Eastington . |
| 26 | A hat-trick of top quality from Mark Gill , and an equally good contribution from Tim McCann , saw the Reds breeze past Newry with a scintillating second-half performance . |
| 27 | In my mirror I saw the ford taxi moving up on me fast . |
| 28 | That went gradually , as I saw the cancer beating him , saw his skin stretched over his bones , saw the pallor creep over him . |
| 29 | She held the tip of it just inside her pouting snatch , and only sank down on to it when she saw the door opening . |
| 30 | Elinor 's only defence system was to say , in a tone fractionally the right side of panic — ‘ I 'm in here ! ’ — if ever she saw the door move . |