Example sentences of "saw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We heard that some rich kids just ignored their fines ; theirs will have been the Porsche 928s we saw about the place . |
| 2 | Saw off the tap from the large plastic screw cap , insert the bung and the airlock . |
| 3 | If this is not possible , saw off the end of a cap iron . |
| 4 | In the end the NL did become demonstrably pro-Conservative and saw off the IML challenge , but divisions like this played their part in ensuring that the British Navy League was never as large or influential as its German counterpart . |
| 5 | Clark 's burst saw off the Spanish zone and then a desperate English press reduced the margin to 11 points with seven minutes to go , but that was as close as England were to come . |
| 6 | Ian McCloud , of Unicef , celebrated as he saw off the first UN convoy of food in weeks . |
| 7 | Jonjo O'Neill 's conditional rider Tony Dobbin sent Moment Of Truth on two out and the top-weight saw off the attentions of Buckra Mellisuga by a length and a half . |
| 8 | The spin of Cant and introduction of Grainger saw off the danger posed by Roxwell 's Beard and Mizen and the runs dried up , giving OC 's a 74-run win . |
| 9 | Saw off the surplus slats , working to the edge of the repositioned battens |
| 10 | Saw off the waste close to the lines , then finish the outside angles by planing , and the inside angle by careful paring with a very sharp chisel , which must be wider than the thickness of the material . |
| 11 | Start with the length of guttering attached to the downpipe and saw off the gutter bolts ( unless they can be unscrewed ) . |
| 12 | The station 's 240 remaining staff saw off the last of the nuclear fuel elements . |
| 13 | Hereford saw off the Doncaster attack but missed good chances to get a few more goals … 2-1 top marks to Greg Downs and his men |
| 14 | An exciting game at Heathfield saw Dawn Nicholson top score on 22 points for the home team as they saw off the challenge of Shildon Aces by 68 points to 47 . |
| 15 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 16 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 17 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 18 | It was when I took my jacket off and stood before a mirror and saw for the first time that all I was was a pair of scarlet braces , that I realised that evangelism was n't enough . |
| 19 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 20 | And Nicholas looked , and saw for the last time the face of Katelina van Borselen , into which Abul Ismail read contentment . |
| 21 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |
| 22 | At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV . |
| 23 | The grid screen is now shown , 45 squares wide and 38 squares high , as we saw for the intarsia chart printing . |
| 24 | I looked out and saw for the first time the main street of Koraloona 's largest town , Anani : a dusty white strip of road , a long row of assorted shops , a few cars . |
| 25 | Next to the butcher , where the meat was arranged on silver platters and the chops dressed with paper ruffs , I saw for the first time a shop stocked exclusively with cheeses : nothing else , just cheese . |
| 26 | So now , more mildly , Frederica saw for the first time that the light was gold , that olives were black and warm , the olive trees were powdery-grey , that lavender was a purple haze . |
| 27 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 28 | In between the two mosques , in the great arc of roofs and terraces which surmounted the houses of Shahjehanabad , I saw for the first time that secret Delhi which lies hidden from those who only know the city from ground level . |
| 29 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 30 | The boy saw through the fanaticism and found that his sense of chivalry was excited . |