Example sentences of "[pron] saw in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God alone knows what she saw in that brute . |
| 2 | He remarked , " I got rid of what you saw in that hole out there . |
| 3 | The trouble with the slogan , survival of the fittest , is that it gives the impression that evolution is all about creating a kind of super race , you know , like you saw in Nazi propaganda films , you know , blonde erm muscly beasts as it were , who were the th the sort of pinnacles of , of , of creation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is difficult to discount the evidence that Protestant theology provided important resources for those who saw in experimental science the key to human progress . |
| 6 | Idealism has its roots in the writings of the eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant , who saw in universal adherence to the rule of law the possibility of global peace . |
| 7 | ‘ And so , ’ Mr Malik was saying , ‘ we observe the accumulation of gods , very much as one saw in pre-Islamic Medina . |
| 8 | In the event of misplacement , as we saw in one patient , immediate removal is possible . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | We saw in this chapter that the rich are more inclined to say that they would break an unjust law than the poor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She 's so flighty and daffy and he 's so glum and boring — you always wondered what they saw in each other . |
| 13 | 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 . |