Example sentences of "saw [art] light [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna cupped one hand over her eyes and saw the lights of King 's Cross through the window as the train slowed to a crawl , preparatory to gliding to a halt . |
| 2 | As the words died away , Luke shrugged , and Maria saw the light of recklessness leap in his eyes . |
| 3 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 4 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 5 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 6 | ‘ There was nice stuff written during that era but it never saw the light of day . |
| 7 | I never sold a garment or got an order from this source , I wonder if they saw the light of day . |
| 8 | She stepped off the plane wearing an old primrose Catherine Walker number which last saw the light of day five years ago . |
| 9 | But this figure can mislead , as was pointed out by many people as soon as the Fleischmann and Pons paper saw the light of day , and by some , at least , of those who had sight of their DOE application . |
| 10 | Unix System V Release 4.2 — now the official name for Destiny — the desktop version of Unix from Unix System Laboratories Inc — finally saw the light of day at a full-dress industry event in San Francisco last week . |
| 11 | XPG4 — originally set to come out last May , but delayed due to ‘ complex documentation ’ ( UX No 385 ) is the next-generation of X/Open 's Portability Guide , and builds on the long-established XPG3 , which first saw the light of day back in September 1988 ( UX No 197 ) . |
| 12 | Just 102 years after Cesare Beccaria 's Dei Delitti e delle Pene saw the light of day there came the publication of another work by an Italian called Cesare , equally seminal and revolutionary but in most respects diametrically opposed to Beccaria 's way of thinking . |
| 13 | In the summer of 1820 , after a visit to Russia the previous year to promote his recently translated New Testament , which eventually saw the light of day in 1847 , Vuk again approached Miloš , this time offering to teach the ruler to read and write . |
| 14 | Since 1981 , when the IBM PC fist saw the light of day , its users have always had DOS , in one flavour or another . |
| 15 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
| 16 | Erm , my only view is that , er , the reason is that , by the time it saw the light of day , because remember , the manuscript was in the , the manuscript was physically in the possession of the Bullitt family not the Freud family . |
| 17 | But please to remember that the Battle of Britain boffinery first saw the light of day in the mid-1930s . |
| 18 | THIS wide ranging exhibition of metal work in all its many forms first saw the light of day in Lincoln . |
| 19 | For the first three days we were locked in the classrooms and never saw the light of day . ’ |
| 20 | But then the faint brows began to lift ; and Alistair thought he saw the light of recognition . |
| 21 | But at least none of them saw the light of print — until today 's souvenir edition . |
| 22 | Shelley 's Original Poetry , by Victor and Cazire , saw the light at Worthing in Sussex . |
| 23 | I saw the light in Matthew 's office and I went — ’ |
| 24 | Having enjoyed ‘ a string of celebrity lovers ’ , he apparently ‘ saw the light after multimillionaire basketball star Magic Johnson was found to be HIV positive . ’ |
| 25 | Aunt Sara was n't feeling well ; she came downstairs and saw a light in father 's office … ’ |