Example sentences of "[adv] saw [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Nicholas Beaumont , whose husband is Clerk of the Course , and whom I only saw in the distance ; Mr and Mrs Oliver Sherwood , Major and Mrs Peter Wiggin , Mr and Mrs Tim Dawson , Mr Harry Middleton , Mrs Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie , Colonel and Mrs Tommy Wallis , and their daughter Mrs Charles Baker ; Mr and Mrs John Guest , Mrs Tom Scott , Mr Peter Dimmock , and Mrs George Beeby . |
| 2 | When painting Cornish scenes Minton had been aware of the precedent set by Christopher Wood and The Times rightly saw in The Harbour an attempt to translate a Christopher Wood theme ‘ into the tragic idiom of modern painters ’ . |
| 3 | She had none of that innocence or boundless enthusiasm that the Princesse always saw as the stamp of the American girl . |
| 4 | A kind and intelligent psychiatrist ( one of the few we ever saw outside the hospital ) came to talk to us about schizophrenia — the most feared mental illness of all . |
| 5 | The rise of Fascism was welcomed at the time , not only by the Italians but by many others , including the British Prime Minister , Baldwin , and Winston Churchill , who probably saw in the movement a bulwark against Bolshevism . |
| 6 | He also saw to the payment of the doctors and nurses who looked after Paul , though he never visited him , any more than Dinah did . |
| 7 | He also saw behind the President the smiling face of the DDI . |
| 8 | On the Unionist side men who had been fed with the heady talk of absolute resistance mobilized to resist what they now saw as the sell-out of the Southern Irish Unionists . |
| 9 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 10 | For most there was little opportunity : the peasant rarely saw beyond the group of villages in which he was born ; many a townsman strayed only a little further ; monks were incarcerated in monasteries for life — and so forth . |