Example sentences of "saw [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially .
2 THE British National Championships at Crystal Palace at the weekend once again saw Wolverhampton dominate the proceedings , with their fighters Elvis Gordon , at heavyweight , Densign White , at middleweight , Fitzroy Davies , at light-middleweight , and Owen Pinnock the bantamweight all taking gold medals .
3 THE British National Championships at Crystal Palace at the weekend once again saw Wolverhampton dominate the proceedings , with their fighters Elvis Gordon , at heavyweight , Densign White , at middleweight , Fitzroy Davies , at light-middleweight , and Owen Pinnock the bantamweight all taking gold medals .
4 But when he turned round he saw Dean Simpson was holding a stanley knife .
5 Beyond them , just coming in through the door , she saw Pascoe .
6 Never since the wartime cabinet saw Churchill and Atlee working in concert have the main political parties seemed so close on defence .
7 ‘ I heard screaming and saw Kelly being dragged along the road by a man , ’ said neighbour Tracey Curd .
8 An I saw Kelly about two week 's ago , no , about a month ago .
9 They were helped by provincial publishers who saw money in the subscription system and the growing market of women readers .
10 Kandinsky when first he saw Money 's later paintings noted , ‘ they gave to painting a fantastic strength and brilliance .
11 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 .
12 Lalage looked into her drink , swirling and looking as if she saw money in the bottom of her glass .
13 Athelstan saw money change hands and Cranston came back with a thick broomstick .
14 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
15 I almost dropped the flowers when I saw Lisabeth on the phone in the hallway as I kicked the door shut .
16 When I saw Computer Services , I was immediately a bit disappointed .
17 He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock .
18 We saw Jason , you know that I hate Jason ?
19 When he saw Edwin Chase striding up towards them he made haste to make known one to the other .
20 When he saw Edwin Chase striding up towards them he made haste to make known one to the other .
21 When she saw Goldman , her voice rose above Helen 's .
22 Millions of TV viewers saw Garry weep as the national anthem was played .
23 She saw Garry give Benny a large hammer .
24 Through her tears she saw Garry scaling the wall as he made a run for it .
25 THE last time I saw Sting he was with Mrs Sting sitting on the TV-am sofa reminding us of our duty to the rainforests .
26 ‘ I have said enough , ’ he muttered as he saw Moodie approach .
27 The women of the family often saw advantage in fomenting such disputes .
28 Yeah well when I saw Alison 's lo the flan recipes , I panicked .
29 Then he saw Shildon .
30 I was awful , in those days I was into acid green sleeks and I had my hair cut in a triangle When I saw Auntie Muriel I thought , if that 's the way you end up , working on a farm , I 'll stay at home and become an underresourced juvenile But it was n't up to me .
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