Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] saw [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order . |
| 2 | Later in the afternoon I saw a meal for all 600 prisoners being cooked in one gigantic iron pot over a blazing fire . |
| 3 | Beneath the shirt I saw the outline of her breasts . |
| 4 | In ten minutes I saw a summary of the whole butcher 's shop of war . |
| 5 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 6 | While on holiday in Portugal I saw a conifer that looked so magnificent I just had to photograph it . |
| 7 | Yes , it 's a funny old thing , actually I must tell you I feel an awful lot better since I 've passed my I suppose , last Friday I saw a Solicitor and the divorce is now actually sat up on it 's merry way rejoicing , and |
| 8 | When I examined Southgate 's horse I saw the spur marks . |
| 9 | I started running and when I reached this end of the scaffolding I saw a woman bending over something on the ground at the other end . |
| 10 | Here they were presented with a new interpretation of world events from the Kremlin which saw the world as divided into ‘ two camps ’ and called on Communists everywhere to resist US ‘ imperialism ’ . |
| 11 | Keynes himself saw the liquidity trap as merely a special case : the case where the economy is in deep recession . |
| 12 | Barnett himself saw the solution to the problem in achieving an amicable peace between rich and poor by finding cultural means of bringing together the " two nations " . |
| 13 | On the southern side she saw the mandarin silks of the beginnings of civilisation and the huge courage of the Long March ; and on the other , to the north , the eternal silence of the greatest desolation . |
| 14 | Celebrities among the 2,000 fans who saw the Maple Leafs win a 6–5 victory included actresses Susan George , Fiona Fullerton , Patricia Hodge and Cherie Lunghi , and society hostess Ivana Trump . |
| 15 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 16 | Readers who saw the game on television will recall that Brooke did exactly as the law required and so the try was legal . |
| 17 | Many of the Asian traders who saw the attack would n't be interviewed for fear of reprisals . |
| 18 | ‘ Ride on ’ can be proved by the police officer or witness who saw the offence . |
| 19 | Any witness who saw the offence could prove this point . |
| 20 | Any witness who saw the incident and could identify the accused could prove this point . |
| 21 | A witness who saw the incident described the driver as white , about 25 years old , six feet tall , and of slim build with broad shoulders . |
| 22 | ‘ Attempt to drive ’ can be proved by the officer in the case or another witness who saw the defendant attempting to drive . |
| 23 | Richard took his brother 's car that night , and a witness who saw the accident on the Birdlip bypass said it happened in the dark , the car left the road without attempting to follow the curve of the road . |
| 24 | Fans of the Good Morning programme who saw a holiday report on Amsterdam , presented by on May 5 , may be surprised to know they were in fact watching a colleague . |
| 25 | A barman who saw the dance at Berwick 's Quarterbeck Club said last night : ‘ She was having a very enjoyable time and was clearly the life and soul of the party . |
| 26 | The moment the words left her lips she saw the trap , but it was too late . |
| 27 | Deeply as she sympathized with the woman 's condition she saw no reason why the husband should be made its victim . |
| 28 | Eventually , authors of the calibre of Dashiell Hammett and Chandler moved on to producing full-length books , based often on their early material in the pulps and always with the hero , the person through whose eyes one saw the story , a private-eye , a shamus , a private investigator , a P.I . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
| 30 | Opening his eyes he saw the blood flowing from his arm , from his own bite , blossoming against the snow . |