Example sentences of "[conj] he saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he heard of the disappearance of Mrs Wilks , 22 , he drove back down the motorway and noted the marker post number where he saw the car . |
| 2 | Every goddam way they had taken Harry 's picture , so that he saw the part of Harry 's head that was intact , and the part that was blasted . |
| 3 | Michael 's problem was that he saw the glamour in Frank 's position : the love of liberty ; the excitement in the free pursuit of truth ; the shaking off of convention and mere conformity ; the feeling that religion was a ‘ stuffy valley ’ out of which he had grown . |
| 4 | After World War One , as we 've been seeing , he was exploring the ego , and his writing about the ego , in particular , group psychology and Future of an Illusion , show quite clearly that he saw the ego as a pro-social fact in the personality . |
| 5 | An old man with only one eye said that he saw the Virgin Mary standing behind Gabriel , dressed in purple and green . |
| 6 | Although Woolf stated that ‘ there is no single cause of riots ’ ( para 9.23 ) it may not be too great a distortion to say that he saw the lack of legitimacy of the prison for its inmates as the key factor in explaining the disorders . |
| 7 | If it is true that he saw the Church in the form of a pyramid , as many people did , with authority flowing down from himself to cardinals , bishops and then to priests , then a Council had no place in any such scheme of things : it only confused the pattern of authority . |
| 8 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 9 | It also suggests that he saw the gift of the Spirit as the supreme characteristic of the kingdom . |
| 10 | He later claimed that he initiated the demand for independence within one year : he asserted that he saw the Governor who promised to pass on his message to London . |
| 11 | ‘ did use ( or keep ) ’ 'Use' is usually proved by the police officer in the case giving evidence that he saw the defendant driving the motor vehicle in question . |
| 12 | In the majority of cases the conveyance will be a motor car and the ‘ taking ’ is proved by a witness stating that he saw the defendant take the car , or by an admission to that effect by the defendant . |
| 13 | And he saw the stubbornness under her brows . |
| 14 | Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain . |
| 15 | And he saw the work of an old favourite of his from the London days , J Maris , who had some beautiful things on show . |
| 16 | She slid the thin silk robe from her shoulders and stood naked before the fire , looking at him , and he saw the humility and the fear in her eyes , and felt something fierce and triumphant uncoil . |
| 17 | ‘ We are pretty certain Watson just mugged because they were there and he saw the chance of easy pickings without much danger of violence being offered back to him , ’ said a policeman . |
| 18 | I do n't wan na be told that somebody and some remote things , like which was mine , and somebody would say , well he saw it and he saw the policeman ah they would come , they 've never catch them ! |
| 19 | If Jewish control could not be challenged constitutionally it would have to be done by acts of Steel ; and he saw the time approaching when , like the mayor of Bethlehem , he would have to arm his son against the Jews . |
| 20 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 21 | He dropped his gaze from the burning orbs in the dark interior of the big car … and he saw the gun again . |
| 22 | The VW , driven by Wing , overtook and he saw the defendant 's brother , a passenger in the car , gesticulating at him . |
| 23 | It whined deep in its throat , as though in pain , and he saw the body grow paler as the fur sloughed away into nothing . |
| 24 | From the darkness where the thicker growth of box began , a shadowy figure slipped out to join him , and he saw the oval of a girl 's face as a paler gleam above her dark coat . |
| 25 | He held the paper in both hands and he saw the paper waver in front of his spectacles . |
| 26 | And he saw the ring , his ring , that she was wearing openly for the occasion , beside Anne Mowbray 's wedding-ring on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 27 | Angus Fleming , the aircraft 's designer , is well known for his company 's construction of glider trailers and he saw the Chevron as a way of selling more trailers . |
| 28 | It seemed to give him a purpose which , up until he saw the sign , he had n't had . |
| 29 | It seemed to Creggan that she was surrounded by a powerful diffused light until he saw the mist was thinning and the sun beginning to shine . |
| 30 | The King grasped his wrist tightly , squeezing hard , not satisfied until he saw the Frenchman wince . |