Example sentences of "saw in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 2 | Gregory saw in the vandalism caused during this episode the fulfilment of a prophecy of Joel : " that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten " . |
| 3 | The eradication of Judaism in the Auvergne attracted the interest not only of Gregory , but also of Venantius Fortunatus , who saw in the event the emergence of a unified Christian community . |
| 4 | Do you remember that erm woman we saw in the park with those two little girls ? |
| 5 | Some judges and lawyers saw in the development a serious threat to the independent impartial adjudication of disputes by the courts . |
| 6 | ‘ Look in a mirror , girl , and you 'll see what that insolent cur saw in the hall tonight . |
| 7 | and while he was talking to the woman he saw in the hall an elderly woman , and he said to the woman at the door , is that your mother , she said oh yes she 's with me now , she used to live at Woodbridge . |
| 8 | But I saw in the newspaper that , in three weeks , the new young King , Rudolf the Fifth , would have his coronation . |
| 9 | ‘ I was going to , but I saw in the newspaper the next morning that he had died . ’ |
| 10 | erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another . |
| 11 | Melissa turned out to be a small , jolly woman , maybe a teacher or a social worker , and the only woman I saw in the camp who wore a wedding ring . |
| 12 | We saw in the cemetery a pile of about 60–70 corpses , two days accumulation ( not reckoning the private burials ) , waiting to be tumbled into a pit , and also a pit full of other corpses . |
| 13 | The chap you saw in the druid outfit got them going again and he 's still the king-pin . ’ |
| 14 | Those lucky teachers who came under Basil 's guidance were helped to be more creative themselves and to bring out creativity in their children with the amazing results which we saw in the West Riding schools . |
| 15 | But , as we saw in the discussion of neoclassicism , it was unrealistic to suppose that questions of intent and responsibility could be abandoned . |
| 16 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
| 17 | Of course , this reflects the very different role of the American courts vis-a-vis other governmental institutions but , as we saw in the discussion of courts and rights ( chapter 18 ) , if one has no right to information it becomes extremely difficult to exercise all manner of other rights . |
| 18 | This leads directly to a further difference : an orthodox practitioner is likely to treat all cases of influenza with the same drug , an antibiotic perhaps ; whereas the homoeopathic practitioner may use different remedies , depending on the patient 's reaction to the influenza , as we saw in the cases illustrated above . |
| 19 | ( But , as we saw in the Faulhaber example , not all average cost prices are sustainable in general . ) |
| 20 | If they were not , then , as we saw in the echoes of this theory which can be found in Hobbes 's resolutio-compositive method , the proper order of demonstration would have been reversed . |
| 21 | Indeed , many sole practitioners clearly regarded the abolition of sole practice as the hidden agenda of the Council , and saw in the presentation of the issues in the background paper an attack upon the very concept of a single profession governed in accordance with single set of regulations . |
| 22 | As we saw in the case of the bacteria on a pin 's head , successive splittings into two can generate a very large number of cells in rather a short time . |
| 23 | Just as we saw in the case of a bank 's assets , these two criteria tend to conflict . |
| 24 | Nobody I saw in the streets ever looked up . |
| 25 | On the way from the hospital , everything he saw in the streets was inexpressively beautiful , the light clearer than he remembered , ‘ the spaces more infinite ’ . |
| 26 | What was the last thing you saw in the cinema ? |
| 27 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 28 | Peering ahead , Carol saw in the distance , and below , the roofs and chimneys of a town . |
| 29 | He turned yet another corner and saw in the distance a rare copse of evergreen trees close to the road . |
| 30 | Then Creggan saw in the distance two of the Men coming , the Keeper and one other . |