Example sentences of "saw the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Collum 's two years as chairman saw the 100 Group 's profile rise significantly , and Mr Lawrence intends to capitalise on his efforts . |
| 2 | Saw the two blackbirds and the thrush . |
| 3 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 4 | Perhaps you saw the two TV programmes on American fundamentalism recently which put the ghastly and unacceptable face of that form of fundamentalism before us . |
| 5 | After the interval we saw The Two Pigeons with Sandra Madgwick , Michael O'Hare , Anita Landa , and Chenca Williams in the leading roles . |
| 6 | New witnesses have told police that they saw the two youths with James in Walton . |
| 7 | At the window they laughed together and bit a knuckle , like children or housemaids — watching avidly , they saw the two boys get out of a car that could not be Robert 's . |
| 8 | A woman saw the two boys holding James by the hands about an hour after they had left the shops . |
| 9 | She saw the two women lying in their beds . |
| 10 | He saw the two women sitting there as the Orion glided past and disappeared up a side street . |
| 11 | They are watching me , thought Rupert Stonebird , as he saw the two women walking rather too slowly down the road . |
| 12 | She looked up eagerly at the sound of footsteps , but then , as she saw the two women , with an almost human expression of disappointment she turned her head away and with a heavy sigh lowered her head to her paws . |
| 13 | She said she saw the two defendants tormenting an elderly woman by prodding her from behind . |
| 14 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 15 | Hilary Frome glanced politely in its direction , and saw the two bottles of sherry left over from the last staff festivities , one of them half empty , the other two-thirds empty . |
| 16 | Then a flicker of movement caught his eye off to one side of the clearing , and he saw the two youngsters were still hovering there uncertainly . |
| 17 | The new Trophy format then saw the two singles rubbers played simultaneously on adjacent courts , with 22-year-old Drake falling to Yorkshire champion Gary Henderson 4–6 2–6 , while 37-year-old team-mate Jonathan Smith secured the overall match victory with a 7–5 6–3 win over the Yorkshire champion on Simon Ickringill . |
| 18 | From the beginning , Pitt-Rivers saw the two flaws in the 1882 Ancient Monuments Protection Act . |
| 19 | Prost , starting from a record seventh successive pole position at the start of a season , was beaten off the grid by Hill in a startling getaway which also saw the two Ferraris of Berger and Jean Alesi of France surge through from the third row to take third and fourth places . |
| 20 | Mr Dovaston said witnesses had told police they saw the two men shout to Magee to catch up with them . |
| 21 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |
| 22 | PC Aspinall arrived on the scene and saw the two men pushing a car . |
| 23 | He swept the torch beam round the short passage and saw the two cell doors on his left were ajar . |
| 24 | They saw the two ideas as analogous , but that " The very core of the ideal was home in a rural village community " ( 1976 p 140 ) . |
| 25 | D'Arcy saw the two wine goblets on the table ; the empty bottle of Haut-Brion . |
| 26 | Dorothy L. Sayers clearly saw the two courses open to women — of marriage and a family on the one hand and of a fulfilling career on the other — as implacably opposed . |
| 27 | The great Florenz Ziegfeld saw the forty-eight Girls in the Folies-Bergère in Paris and took them under contract for a six month spell into his own Follies which he extended to three years . |
| 28 | Mr Jarrett said she saw the four defendants go for Mr Johnson , holding knives and stabbing at him uttering threat of drawing blood.It was a fatal single stab wound to the neck that caused his death . |
| 29 | Loco working to Aberystwyth vanished with the May timetable , but the return of the students to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth saw the 16.30 arrival in Aberystwyth on Friday , 27 September and on Monday , 30 September . |
| 30 | However , many saw the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act as ending ‘ the ‘ Mother Country ’ hallucination' ( Kapo 1981 ) . |