Example sentences of "they saw the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at least none of them saw the light of print — until today 's souvenir edition . |
| 2 | He disentangled himself from Madra before dawn to share his watch with Bicker , and the two of them saw the sun come up . |
| 3 | one of them saw the body and passed out cold . ’ |
| 4 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 5 | It is also important to note that they saw the taking of law into their own hands as temporary , and pending the recognition by that state of its mistaken attitude towards them and their right to a degree of autonomy . |
| 6 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 7 | They saw the temple of the sun and the temple of the moon , driving out of the huge city past a tangle of ravines and yellow clifftops hung with shacks of corrugated iron and this and that . |
| 8 | But both Pound and Lewis were American or Americanized enough to have on the contrary a professional attitude to their respective arts , in the quite precise sense that they saw the continuity of art traditions ensured by the atelier , the master instructing his prentices . |
| 9 | As soon as they saw the car , which had a police sign on the roof , they quietened down . |
| 10 | just then they saw the lights come hurtling back up the rough track towards them . |
| 11 | They saw the cartel as a necessary evil to make the market less volatile and to restrain producers themselves from trying to corner the market in coffee futures . |
| 12 | This time they saw the church in all its Moorish exuberance . |
| 13 | They saw the fascist stewards as the Nazi storm troopers trampling upon liberty and were quick to dissociate themselves from the image which the BUF had gained . |
| 14 | Mrs Olive Davis , 47 , was walking home with her husband , Joe , 59 , when they saw the crash and she spoke of how Mr Swales died in her arms . |
| 15 | Mr Dovaston said witnesses had told police they saw the two men shout to Magee to catch up with them . |
| 16 | And when they saw the star , they rejoiced with exceeding great joy . |
| 17 | And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh . |
| 18 | As they watched , they saw the tall red mainsail crumple and fall in great folds on the top of the cabin . |
| 19 | Only when they saw the hooded men with blood-covered knives approaching their cars did they realise what lay in store for them . |
| 20 | Did anyone out there , when they saw the movie , realize that they were smoking for real ? |
| 21 | As secularists , they saw the Islamic resurgence as retrograde , leading away from the kind of society they hoped to create . |
| 22 | Thus they were forced to remain in hiding and at half past two they saw the glow of the fires that Mayne had lit at Tamit lighting up the horizon . |
| 23 | At one point , they saw the sea receding from the near-by beaches ; sucked away and apparently forced back by the earthquakes , so that quantities of sea creatures were left stranded . |
| 24 | They saw the election coverage being presented predominantly in competitive terms , like a horse race , with predictions about likely winners and losers . |
| 25 | She then contacted any other service-providers who appeared to be involved with the client , to ask them what help they were providing , and how they saw the client 's needs . |
| 26 | Sometimes the German fighters followed the bombers back to their bases , and then when they saw the flare path light up for a few brief moments to guide the homecoming aircraft down , they would open up with their guns . |
| 27 | They saw the mother drop her parcels and turn around to step back and try to reach her boy . |
| 28 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 29 | They might prefer to work out a general letter and simply insert the details such as where they saw the job advertised and the name given to the vacancy advertised . |
| 30 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |