Example sentences of "[adv] saw [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Anne stayed at home , and only saw Diana in the evenings . |
| 2 | But when I pushed open the gate into the yard on my return , I always saw Jean-Claude at the window . |
| 3 | It later saw service in the Napoleonic wars and as an anti-aircraft point in this century . |
| 4 | US Air and Trade Show at Dayton , Ohio in 1990 was one of the first public appearances of the F-117A stealth fighter , it also saw performances by the MiG-29 , YF-22 and XV-15 . |
| 5 | Wishart frequently saw Minton in the company of his cousin Anna , the daughter of the poet Roy Campbell . |
| 6 | Trade unionists increasingly saw underconsumption as the cause of stagnant trade , for , as the manifesto of the woollen textile workers stated on the eve of the 1925 textile lock-out : ‘ There is no greater fallacy today than to think we could get back to prosperity by reducing wages . ’ |
| 7 | Policeman says : He tried to dip his headlights for an oncoming car then saw horses in the road and just could n't stop in time so ploughed into them . |
| 8 | In the 1750s , orangs from Sumatra reached Holland , but it was not until the 1850s that the English scientist Alfred Wallace ( see page 164 ) actually saw orangs in the wild and inevitably collected specimens by shooting them , the way that even the best naturalists obtained animals for study in those days . |
| 9 | I never saw Moscow in the heyday of the great parades of May and November . |
| 10 | ‘ You said you never saw action in the last war ? ’ |