Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] saw [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She marvelled at her friend and abhorred the expression of disgust she saw on Demian 's face . |
| 2 | This rococo element , together with the poplar 's symbolic identity as the ‘ tree of liberty ’ , reinforced the view of one nationalistic critic who saw in Monet 's poplars ‘ all the grace , all the spirit , all the youth of our land ’ . |
| 3 | THE World Cup may be well over , but there 's no forgetting some of the performances we saw in October 1991 . |
| 4 | ‘ Antwerp were amateurs compared to the play-acting we saw from Apoel at Clandeboye , ’ said Crowe . |
| 5 | In 1985 , the British Psychological Society expressed the opposition it saw between women and good theory , when it claimed , as partial grounds for its refusal of a Psychology of Women Section , that the psychology of women ‘ lacks the necessary [ theoretical and methodological ] coherence to be the basis of a scientific Section of the Society ’ ( Newman 1985 : 2 ) , and questioned whether this subdiscipline had the range which a full Section of the Society requires . |
| 6 | ‘ But the style of rugby I saw in August over there , and that we have seen on their tour of France and England , indicates that before very long the Springboks will be up there with the best . |
| 7 | Of course that had been mostly created by the lack of money , but the instability she saw in Joe was n't that kind of lack , it was something she could n't put her finger on . |
| 8 | The provocative , practised performer they saw on stage that night was a niece to be proud of . |
| 9 | Here is an American artist writing about his dismay at the work he saw at Paris in 1831 : |
| 10 | It was simply that the Katherine he saw through Thomas seemed a stranger . |
| 11 | The next time she consulted her watch she saw with surprise that it was nearly six o'clock . |
| 12 | She dared not believe in the warmth and tenderness she saw in Matthew 's eyes . |
| 13 | In my first article I wrote of the ingenuity and imagination I saw in children 's play in Asia . |
| 14 | An interesting room I saw in New York made ingenious use of its space . |
| 15 | Even then he had not liked to look into it too much but had kept his eyes on the ground or straight ahead of him because the wood was the kind of place you saw in story-book illustrations or even in your dreams and out of which things were liable to come creeping . |
| 16 | On the Shankhill Road they saw by accident a person whom Joan had talked with during the WLAA campaign for legal justice . |
| 17 | Other birds we saw around Nesseby included dunlin , familiar enough to me as a breeding wader of the Shetland hills . |
| 18 | I do n't think you are ever trained to deal with the things we saw on Saturday . ’ |
| 19 | The back wall of the First Church is littered with scrap pieces of paper on which are written things like PLEASE HELP AUNTIE JOAN THROUGH THIS PHASE OF THE TREATMENT or DEAR GOD , HELP ALL THE PEOPLE I SAW ON WATERLOO STATION THIS WEEKEND AND PRAY FOR ALL , ALIVE AND DECEASED , AT 110 HOLDEN ROAD , FINCHLEY . |
| 20 | Bernice found herself unable to look away , inexorably drawn to the guilt and sadness she saw in Cheryl 's face , and which she blamed herself for . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the locket we saw in town the other day ! |
| 22 | Did you recognize her — that poor crushed creature we saw in Vienna , did you recognize her ? ’ |
| 23 | Our Young Old Age they saw as Senility ; our Old Old Age was beyond the focus of their conventional wisdom . |
| 24 | I remember the first TV documentary I saw about gays — the participants appeared only in silhouette and questions were couched in hushed and tragic tones . |
| 25 | The number of landlord-peasants and landless or part-tenant farmers increased rapidly , and the growth of landlordism was accelerated by the ingress of merchants , entrepreneurs and moneylenders who saw in land a profitable and respectable locus for investment . |
| 26 | ‘ Queenie ’ , as she was called in the family , was a doctor 's daughter who saw in Michael Joyce an eligible husband and the promise of a self-made man . |
| 27 | From the main road she saw outside No. 43 gate a slight drooping figure . |
| 28 | Durham will meet up again with two Essex players they saw on tour seamer Don Topley , who was the Zimbabwe coach , and off-spinner Peter Such , who was the professional at Bulawayo . |
| 29 | When you looked like Donna , why did you have to fret about not looking like the average social X-ray you saw in New York ? |
| 30 | She was the first patient I saw with pseudochyluria . |