Example sentences of "saw at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash .
2 She darted forward and saw at a glance what had happened .
3 This man , if without great genius , saw at a glance the effect which would be produced by any opéra you showed him .
4 Firstly , during the negotiations the purchaser will naturally be concerned to be reassured as to what it saw at the outset as being the merits of the proposed acquisition .
5 Indeed , we saw at the beginning that this was the principal reason for culture in the first place : it was a means of containing such anti-social antagonisms in what was , for a gelada-like hominid , a novel mode of subsistence which demanded considerable social cooperation , altruism and restraint .
6 Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs .
7 I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech .
8 Despite what you saw at the club .
9 ‘ I need to reflect upon what we saw at the Tower . ’
10 He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time .
11 British culture can often be fiercely nationalistic , as we all saw at the time of the Falklands war .
12 But I know what he saw at the time — three mere candle-flames and three mere shadows .
13 When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity .
14 I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show .
15 The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based .
16 What they saw at the end fundamentally shocked his system .
17 Turning , he saw at the end of the cul-de-sac a police-car .
18 And there he was , I went to look and I saw at the end there , a big pile of erm earth fresh earth you know .
19 I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon .
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