Example sentences of "[pron] saw [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an image of GLF existing through meeting people and talking to them , but the only physical evidence I saw at that time was badges saying GLF . |
| 2 | She saw with some dismay that his expression had grown sombre . |
| 3 | And as Fabia gasped at the implication she saw behind that statement Lubor was going on , ‘ It is I who asks you , for myself . |
| 4 | God alone knows what she saw in that brute . |
| 5 | He remarked , " I got rid of what you saw in that hole out there . |
| 6 | Such exclusivity was viewed with horror by mainstream credal Calvinists such as Whitgift , who saw in such elitism the seeds of a subversive and divisive separatism which might threaten the very existence of a national church . |
| 7 | No chance of getting any laundry done unless we meet some tribe of washerwomen waiting for custom outside one of those zinc shacks like we saw in that village in Provence do you remember ? |
| 8 | We saw in this chapter that the rich are more inclined to say that they would break an unjust law than the poor . |
| 9 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 10 | But fair trade as we saw from that sketch , involves a lot more than just fair wages . |
| 11 | That is to say , it assumes the hierarchical erm conception of God 's world and the ethic of obedience , which , as we saw from that prose passage , underlies the conception of the fall as the central sin . |
| 12 | The less they saw of each other , Constance had reluctantly accepted over the years , the better friends she and her mother were . |
| 13 | She 's so flighty and daffy and he 's so glum and boring — you always wondered what they saw in each other . |
| 14 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 15 | In the fifth century A.D. Theodoretus felt the difficulty when , in his admirable analysis , he saw in this Psalm a prophecy of the burning of the Temple by Titus ( P.G . |