Example sentences of "[pron] saw [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
| 2 | I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months . |
| 3 | Erm , two possibles have come er h have appeared , both of whom er w say they would er , one is is an Appalachian dance group , called Just for Kicks , who I saw at the open |
| 4 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 5 | It 's against the system in Continental Europe , it 's against the system I saw in the occupied West Bank when I went out with the police last year and what I saw in South Africa a fortnight ago when I went out w with the police there i i i into the shanty towns and so on . |
| 6 | ( Funnily enough , years later in France I saw in the Orange branch of the Credit Agricole exactly the same slogan used to advertise personal loans . ) |
| 7 | I yearned towards the mystical earnestness which saw through the outer facing of existence in a oneness and blinding intensity which went direct to some essence of being . |
| 8 | Beneath them , in France , there existed an ordered and fairly hierarchical structure which saw to the day-to-day defence of the country , from those with wide territorial jurisdictions to those who might be sent to a particular area , town or castle to organise its defence in time of crisis . |
| 9 | As Keeton acknowledges , Dicey ‘ inherited an outlook upon the constitution which owed something to Burke , Blackstone and Bagehot , and which saw in the English system the climax of political achievement ’ . |
| 10 | She also felt that age 6 was too early to make what she saw as a drastic decision — once out of mainstream education she felt he would be unlikely to get back . |
| 11 | Tell My Horse was the result of one of these trips , written in 1936 as a study of voodoo which , like the ‘ hoodoo ’ of the Southern US , she saw as the African spiritual source underlying the fervour of black Christianity . |
| 12 | I am so jealous and protective of her , ’ but , close as she was to Louise , she could n't bring herself to admit what she saw as the black depths of her failure with her daughter . |
| 13 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 14 | There was also , she saw with a slight flush , a peach silk camisole and French knickers . |
| 15 | The man she saw on the other side was in his late thirties , his hair receding slightly , but what hair he did have was thick and lustrous and reached the collar of his shirt . |
| 16 | His body stiffened ; there was a change in him , Robyn felt it , knew it and then he drew back and she saw in a fleeting moment his own look of self-disgust . |
| 17 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 18 | Once the film has stopped I want you to describe everything that you saw during the previous five seconds of film . |
| 19 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 20 | But the truly independently-minded MPs are the sort of Conservatives who turned out Neville Chamberlain in 1940 and whose mutterings in the Smoking Room could affect Conservative premiers. and the kind of Labour members with the outside income or the zeal who saw through the European Communities Bill . |
| 21 | Within a very few years it succeeded in drastically altering the climate in its own homelands — much to the pain of surviving Liberals , such as Harnack , who saw in the entire regrettable enterprise the swamping of properly respectable theological and historical study by a wave of sheer barbarism , of uncouth and indeed vulgar ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 22 | Many of the prominent afrancesados were cultured bureaucrats who saw in the Napoleonic system a hope of ordered regeneration by modern laws and administrative practices . |
| 23 | This effort , as far as the administrative machinery was concerned , was initiated by the French advisers who came to Spain in the early years of the century with the first Bourbon king , Philip V ; later it was encouraged by Choiseul , who saw in the effective mobilization of the resources of his ally the means to defeat England and lay the foundations of a Franco-Spanish world power . |
| 24 | However , they inevitably aroused the hostility of conservative Catholics and Falangist reactionaries , who saw in the liberalizing ideas of Ruiz-Giménez a threat to their respective preserves in the education system . |
| 25 | On looking out of the windows , one saw on the opposite side of the street a bakery displaying a variety of pastries , a chemist 's shop and a barber 's . |
| 26 | The men of the town carried long walking sticks of the sort one saw in the ancient temple reliefs . |
| 27 | As we saw with the pre-sexological theories of perversion , condensation and displacement are strangely enabled by the view of perversion as an inimical threatening absence . |
| 28 | What we saw as an interesting and unusual opportunity , they saw as a second-best . |
| 29 | As we saw in a previous chapter , all the planes or levels of the human being interact with one another , and defects arising in one can be experienced by the others and can cause upsets in them . |
| 30 | However , as we saw in the final sections of that chapter , a consideration of single word identification leads naturally to a consideration of the larger linguistic units in which words normally occur ; and hence we concluded the previous chapter with a discussion of contextual effects on visual and auditory word recognition . |