Example sentences of "saw [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were helped by provincial publishers who saw money in the subscription system and the growing market of women readers . |
| 2 | Kandinsky when first he saw Money 's later paintings noted , ‘ they gave to painting a fantastic strength and brilliance . |
| 3 | Translated as the historical purpose of the bourgeois , Marx saw money as the necessary stripping away of every vestment of the ancien régime , every personal relation of family and society , which would provide the essential foundation for the possibility of communism . |
| 4 | Lalage looked into her drink , swirling and looking as if she saw money in the bottom of her glass . |
| 5 | Athelstan saw money change hands and Cranston came back with a thick broomstick . |
| 6 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 7 | When I saw Computer Services , I was immediately a bit disappointed . |
| 8 | The women of the family often saw advantage in fomenting such disputes . |
| 9 | The growth of commerce saw protection extended to references given by bankers and employers , and to information shared among traders . |
| 10 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 11 | I saw Mum catch Mrs F 's eye , and Mrs F said , ‘ Brian , I still have n't washed the dishes . |
| 12 | I literally jumped for joy when I heard that key turn in the lock and saw Mum and Mrs Taylor enter with another woman . |
| 13 | Then he pulled her towards him and asked her to give him a kiss , but she pulled away quickly when she saw Mum 's scowl . |
| 14 | I burst into tears when I saw Mum , and told her what had happened . |
| 15 | Freud saw attachment to the mother as becoming , during the early years of childhood , imbued with the emerging sexual impulses ; and the father rapidly becoming seen ( not usually consciously ) as an obstacle to gratification of these impulses . |
| 16 | It is important to remember , moreover , that most eighteenth-century reformers saw freedom in largely negative terms . |
| 17 | Although in the early years control did largely rest with the imperial family , others increasingly came to wield power in its name , and the years after 1185 saw hegemony pass to a succession of military rulers who achieved pre-eminent influence by virtue of superior military strength . |
| 18 | Four of Mr Brown 's police protection squad told ABC News they saw drug use at his Los Angeles home . |
| 19 | When Ashley looked up , she saw chaos . |
| 20 | Osburn saw hope for the future in Englishmen mending their ways . |
| 21 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |
| 22 | In 1900 it denied that hysteria had ‘ anything to do with sexual passion , either with its excitement , suppression or gratification ’ , and in a discussion in 1914 a doctor saw hysteria as a product of inactivity in a section of the brain so that ‘ the less a hysterical patient likes any line of treatment , the more good it is likely to do if firmly applied . |
| 23 | I think I saw tide tables in the post office . ’ |
| 24 | Keegan called for cool heads in tonight 's home clash with Cesena after the explosive finale to the Ascoli match three weeks ago saw striker David Kelly sent off . |
| 25 | Cooper , who saw striker John Gayle sent off after an off-the-ball clash with Daniel Delicari in the 70th minute , stormed : ‘ With a chance to qualify for the semi-finals of the competition , I thought the players would really have gone for it . |
| 26 | Wednesday 's players are still furious over the controversial refereeing that saw striker David Hirst sent off in the 3–1 first leg defeat in Kaiserslautern . |
| 27 | She looked up and saw admiration in his eyes . |
| 28 | Some of these saw Communism as a pretty serious threat to a way of life that included cricket , and for these people Hitler was more than a passing attraction . |
| 29 | Dulles , whose experience in foreign policy stretched back to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 , saw communism as an evil system which should not just be " contained " but positively " rolled back " . |
| 30 | For Shakhnazarov , socialism would continue as long as mankind pursued a better world ; but he rejected the idea of ‘ stages ’ of human history and the primacy of economic factors and saw communism itself as a ‘ hypothesis ’ or even a ‘ dream ’ . |