Example sentences of "who saw [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it and I made it back , but the friend who saw me onto the train was so concerned at my appearance , she phoned my daughter . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , there was that boy who saw me legs when I fell over one day , ’ said Dolly . |
| 3 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 4 | Little I cared then who saw me . |
| 5 | ‘ It was Sheila , I know that , who saw me yesterday afternoon . |
| 6 | Who saw me ? |
| 7 | And Phoebe was so relaxed that it actually amused her to realise that everyone who saw them would assume they were a boring married couple , English middle-class tourists . |
| 8 | They saw a great deal of each other , but , because Diana was so much younger and usually just one of a party , no one who saw them together ever suspected she was a girlfriend . |
| 9 | Anyone who saw them with Soul II Soul will have some idea of what to expect , but not the whole story . |
| 10 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 11 | I had thought that the ghastly images of that awful day had been burned forever in the minds of anyone who saw them . |
| 12 | ( And those who saw them off have left the platform ) |
| 13 | It was Agnes who saw them to the door , and then into their car . |
| 14 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 15 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 16 | The six people at a corner table were well known to the proprietor , who saw them regularly in the winter months . |
| 17 | ‘ A friend who saw them there said their behaviour was blatant . ’ |
| 18 | If both prisoners stay mum , the police have a witness who saw them co-operate on a lesser crime , one that would put them both behind bars for two years . |
| 19 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 20 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 21 | When the Sergeant or Corporal entered , the man who saw them first would call out , ‘ Garde à vous ’ ( attention ) , to which the Sergeant would reply , ‘ Au repos ’ ( at ease ) . |
| 22 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 23 | In particular , the spectacle of the tens of thousands of Cossacks in their encampments in the Upper Drau valley near Lienz , with their colourful uniforms , their mass of camp followers , their thousands of horses , covered wagons and even camels , left an indelible impression on all British soldiers who saw them . |
| 24 | They formed a great circle round the very centre of the site , where most eagles had died , and long lines across the moor , pointing to the north , south , east and west , that all who saw them would remember that man and eagle should be as one . |
| 25 | Jane , who had a natural feel for mood and background which complemented the clothes , swam more than competently and her black and white images of windswept models against bleak moors or stark beaches created for many who saw them on the white shop walls their indelible image of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 26 | Coffin was the other police officer who saw them . |
| 27 | They made a good pair , people would have said who saw them . |
| 28 | They were great champions and everyone who saw them on the ice thought they were lovers . |
| 29 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 30 | We found the taxi driver who took him and the girl to the station and witnesses who saw them get on the train . |