Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dermot , I saw the saddle when the lad brought the horse back . |
| 2 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 3 | ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself . |
| 4 | I saw the pond as it must have looked then , the converging tracks , and the grassy ascent to the foundations of the church . |
| 5 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 6 | Well I saw that pai , I saw the shop as , as we came down the Ayleston Road , near the terminus . |
| 7 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |
| 8 | It put him — not for the first time — on the wrong side of the Football Association , which saw the clock as undermining the referee 's authority , and ordered its removal . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | She saw the problem as that of making the information implicit in a dictionary explicit , by finding taxonomies , set membership , recognising human nouns , etc . |
| 11 | She had laughed then at the vivid imagination of the child , but now for a brief moment she saw the city as Maggie saw it , basking in the first rays of the sun and oblivious to the dangerous mist below that might suck it in before it could wake up and take wing against the now blue blue sky . |
| 12 | She saw the note as soon as she got to the door . |
| 13 | But you saw the danger when the figure was one-tenth of that . |
| 14 | Peaceful demonstrators were vulnerable if their espousal of an unpopular cause moved to violence a hostile crowd or those who saw the message as threatening or insulting . |
| 15 | The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas . |
| 16 | They saw the school as condoning these teachers ' attitudes . |
| 17 | They saw the union as being primarily concerned with keeping up levels of men 's pay and hence as the sphere and responsibility of men . |
| 18 | Because they saw the world as composed of groups rather than of individuals , they found it easy to articulate rules of general application , to which exceptions required specific dispensation . |
| 19 | Like Renner , he saw the system as driving towards increased international economic integration which ought to create an internationally united working class , yet seemed only to strengthen national separatism . |
| 20 | He saw the announcement as presumptuous , with Lineker clearly implying he would be in England 's squad eight months before it was announced . |
| 21 | Rather than a bourgeois audience , however , he saw the fabliau as belonging primarily to a seigneurial , aristocratic milieu , and to be closely related to romance precisely as the antithesis of romance ; as being very largely parodic . |
| 22 | He saw the searchlight before he heard the helicopter . |
| 23 | He saw the house as it had once been , in his childhood — still , ordered , each thing in it the finest and most beautiful example of its kind . |