Example sentences of "[noun] saw [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregory saw in the vandalism caused during this episode the fulfilment of a prophecy of Joel : " that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten " . |
| 2 | Margaret Stanhope saw by the watch that never left his wrist that their unromantic interlude would soon be drawing to a close . |
| 3 | Black & Decker has introduced the Cut Saw on the d-i-y market . |
| 4 | ‘ Look in a mirror , girl , and you 'll see what that insolent cur saw in the hall tonight . |
| 5 | One basic theoretical idea is the connection Freud saw between the development of the individual , ontogenesis , and that of the species , phylogenesis . |
| 6 | The boy saw through the fanaticism and found that his sense of chivalry was excited . |
| 7 | Peering ahead , Carol saw in the distance , and below , the roofs and chimneys of a town . |
| 8 | One was milking , and Peggy and I used very often be fetching the wood , we got tractor and trailer into the woods , and the old woodmen used to tell us where the dry wood was we could collect , take it down to the farm , circular saw in the shed , switch the electricity to go on . |
| 9 | We got our Wadkin PK dimension saw from an auction five or six years ago . |
| 10 | The building was completed by 457 B.C. , for Pausanias saw on the apex of the east pediment a golden shield or bowl with a Gorgoneion and below it an inscription ( still partly preserved ) saying that it was dedicated by the Spar tans , a tithe from the spoils taken from the Argives , Athenians and their allies at Tanagra , a battle which took place in that year . |
| 11 | It probably comes from a throned statue of the goddess ‘ of simple workmanship ’ which Pausanias saw within the temple , Zeus in a helmet standing beside her . |
| 12 | The Fifty Years , in the historian 's causal scheme , were the underlying cause of the war , which Thucydides saw as the process of Athenian aggrandizement which struck fear into Sparta . |
| 13 | And so what credit O'Neill might have acquired for his reform package was instantly lost by what Catholics saw as a refusal to confront the loyalist mobs who really ran Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | In what observers saw as a trade-off , Yeltsin announced that legislative bodies would serve the remaining 2@1/2 years of their full term ( having been elected in March 1990 ) and that more than 80 directly appointed heads of administration responsible to the President would continue in office ( a moratorium on local elections was due to be lifted on Dec. 1 ) . |
| 15 | An Information Bureau , the Cominform , was established which Western observers saw as the re-creation of the old Communist International , designed to foster Marxist revolution . |
| 16 | The ‘ generalised other ’ Mead saw as a form of reference group ; a means by which some individuals assessed their norms and values in relation to some external authority . |
| 17 | One day , taking the children into central Birmingham , Anna saw from the bus window the name of the language school she had taught at , in Oxford , on a board outside a small office block . |
| 18 | Both women stressed the idea of service , which Butler saw as an outgrowth of women 's role in the home , while neither envisaged impinging on men 's work . |
| 19 | The fact that the Fund was only too willing to lend in return for a written undertaking that domestic economic policy would follow the lines agreed in negotiations between Treasury officials and the Fund investigators in the autumn of 1976 , involved what many Labour activists saw as a loss of governing powers to an external force that was anti-socialist . |
| 20 | ‘ Any luck yet with the two men Mike saw on the train ? ’ |
| 21 | This , together with his proposed union treaty , which opponents saw as a breakup of the Soviet Union , drove conservatives to try to take over control from him by declaring a state of emergency — in effect , a coup d'état . |
| 22 | It is as if Minton saw in the gun a portent of his own artistic impotence . |
| 23 | Throckmorton and several other conservative country gentlemen used to meet in the Queen 's Head Tavern in Fleet Street to discuss parliamentary affairs , and they probably formed the nearest thing the Reformation Parliament saw to an opposition group . |
| 24 | Ifor was loved and revered by the small brother whom he in turn saw as the family 's great hope of true escape , a conqueror , the one who would show them . |
| 25 | And then I had come from erm what shall we say , a general , my grandparents had kept a general shop and general I mean , from baking , he was a baker er a butcher a coalman and my grandmother saw after the haberdashery , hats etcetera and the grocery . |
| 26 | Some judges and lawyers saw in the development a serious threat to the independent impartial adjudication of disputes by the courts . |
| 27 | For a short time entry was considered into the Communist International which the Left in the ILP saw as a continuation of the Second International of which the ILP had been an affiliate . |
| 28 | Another technical advance Chapman saw on the Continent was the ten-yard semi-circle to ensure that players kept their distance during a penalty kick . |
| 29 | In four coast-to-coast US television interviews , Mr Major was repeatedly pressed over recent incidents in Britain such as the murder of James Bulger in Liverpool , which more than one interviewer saw as a sign of malaise in Britain . |
| 30 | Aung San saw in the Japanese a strength which could overthrow the British Empire . |