Example sentences of "saw [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 When you saw Kenneth the real person he was very wonderful .
2 When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city .
3 Well it 's funny because erm , when we saw Ken the other day he was saying that erm his niece rang him up and erm she 's er she 's gon na be in Crewe this weekend for a friend 's wedding and , I think she must be coming up with some , some other girl as well , because the two of them , he said , I 'm taking two young ladies out on Sunday for lunch where 's a good place for a Sunday lunch you see ?
4 Speaking of which , I saw Clem the Sunday before last .
5 He narrowed his eyes and saw Hope the Merchant Prince , the aristocrat at large on the Rialtos of the world , feared , admired , dipping silkenly between caskets of treasure , tranches of land , ships , silver mines , paintings , furniture , the collector , the connoisseur , and sending all back to the lonely Scottish estate which burgeoned with those foreign infusions of antique wealth , material goods …
6 For that matter , Brancusi saw things the same way at this time .
7 But the more she saw God the more she feared , and the more she feared the more she became angry , and the more angry she became the more she hated , and the more she hated the more afraid of God she grew .
8 I looked for the first time straight into his moonlit eyes , and I saw Perkin the son , the husband , the one who worked with wood .
9 Peter saw Kate the next evening , which was a Thursday , again on Saturday , three times the following week , and twice the week after that .
10 I remember one Sunday afternoon when I saw Zebbie the Coalpicker pushing a bicycle up the hill with a sack of coals on the cross-bar .
11 In fact I rather gather he saw Paul the night he died . ’
12 In five years I never saw Harriet the worse for drink .
13 ‘ When they saw atrocities the British soldiers moved in to stop them . ’
14 Attlee saw Bridges the following day .
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