Example sentences of "he saw the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his left , along the drive , he saw the grey-haired minister from Weem arriving at a gallop . |
| 2 | In Layton he saw the splendour , and the viability , of the poetic destiny . |
| 3 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
| 4 | ‘ Lately , he 's been very much in love because he saw the April issue of Dogs Today with Julian Clary 's dog , Fanny , on the cover . |
| 5 | One diplomat said he saw the referendum , proposed by an important ally of President Corazon Aquino , as ‘ a way to manoeuvre around the Senate block , to isolate the Senate as an elite that is unresponsive to public opinion ’ . |
| 6 | Insp Peter Clarke told the jury that he drove past Mrs Wilks , who was pregnant , after he saw the man pull on to the hard shoulder , towards a telephone box where she was making an SOS call to police headquarters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Farrell , of Ross-on-Wye , Hereford and Worcester , showed them where he saw the car parked and pointed out a skid mark on the hard shoulder . |
| 9 | When he saw the extent of the Pro-Choice backlash against the Court decision , he temporised . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But he saw the prayers of the Church as a living and fruitful tradition which threw up new ideas , some on reflection wrong or offending and to be rejected , others the seeds of devotion . |
| 12 | In the time following The Waste Land he saw the world despairingly , in terms of inane , savage horror . |
| 13 | Yet he saw the danger in making these communities an ideal , as he turned an anthropological eye on Christianity and perceived that such examples seem to proffer no solution to industrial urban and suburban existence — the way most people live . |
| 14 | One of his biographers , Justin O'Brien , says Gide 's awakening to social consciousness began here , when he saw the people of the Congo exploited , beaten , and killed by whites intent on quick profits ( Portrait , 321 ) . |
| 15 | He saw the attachment to the Middle East by Britain as ‘ sentimental ’ , and wanted to redefine Britain as the easterly extension of a strategic area based in the USA , rather than a power looking eastwards through the Mediterranean to India and beyond . |
| 16 | You did n't spend half enough when you got the chance , ’ he said when he saw the bill . |
| 17 | One leading designer said he liked it when he saw the front , until he realised the ‘ front ’ was the back . |
| 18 | Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . |
| 19 | He saw the Commander 's pale face , the nose pinched and sharp , the eyes expressionless , like the windows of a deserted house . |
| 20 | He saw the spilled spirits and the creeping flames . |
| 21 | He saw the new drugs as a threat to his well-being , and lived in dread of the day when they might be prescribed for him . |
| 22 | He saw the political system as the superstructure and the economy as the base , which would change more slowly . |
| 23 | He saw the intense charm of bourgeois Victorian decor many years before the onset of Betjemania , and was an early collector of such objects of mild fantasy as waxen fruits in tall glass domes and crenellated jelly moulds . |
| 24 | Mr Clay said he saw the second article on the plane flying home . |
| 25 | When he came round he saw the side of the train had been ripped open . |
| 26 | When he saw the saxaphone he told his father about it and his father said that if he could save half the money , he would make up the other half . ’ |
| 27 | He saw the problem of visual perception as a particular difficulty for it , and , wishing to proceed gradually , he intended the New Theory to prepare the way for the Principles . |
| 28 | He saw the power of love to inspire and transform . |
| 29 | But to his horror he saw the boy cup his hands round his mouth and make a crude and earsplittingly loud imitation of a pheasant 's call . |
| 30 | Philip ran towards it and as he came round the slight bend in the wide path he saw the boy tugging at it . |