Example sentences of "saw [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially . |
| 2 | I almost dropped the flowers when I saw Lisabeth on the phone in the hallway as I kicked the door shut . |
| 3 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 4 | I first saw Salamanca at a certain moment of dusk when the setting sun still casts a deep red glow over the city 's rosy stone . |
| 5 | School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot . |
| 6 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 7 | Through a half-open door she saw a glimmer of white and stiffened , nauseated , as she saw Melanie over Penry 's shoulder , her face held up to his in impassioned invitation . |
| 8 | She even imagined she saw Marc in the audience one night , his face just a pale blur beyond the footlights with all the others , but what would the jet-setting Marc Vila be doing in Yorkshire ? |
| 9 | And she added : ‘ I saw Kenneth in many , many lights . |
| 10 | Yet might there not have been some confused episode , something which , when Irina was much younger , had distressed her , appalled them both , something which neither of them in their childishness — for here Ludens saw Marcus as a child — had really understood ? |
| 11 | ‘ Stay where you are , Judy ! ’ she cried , as she saw Judy on her hands and knees about to crawl under the wire to Mandy 's rescue . |
| 12 | Wishart frequently saw Minton in the company of his cousin Anna , the daughter of the poet Roy Campbell . |
| 13 | Ever since Tug opened his eyes and saw Doyle in front of the door , things had been different from the other mornings . |
| 14 | If he saw Doyle in the pub he 'd slide out of buying him a drink . |
| 15 | Rufus Kupolati ( who took over as ECOMOG field commander from Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro on Feb. 20 ) saw Taylor at Kakata , Margibi County , when Taylor was reported to have denied that his group intended to continue fighting . |
| 16 | Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs . |
| 17 | He saw Frances in the mirror . |
| 18 | He happened to glance up and saw Beryl on the landing . |
| 19 | The early morning saw Brighton at its most brilliant . |
| 20 | What annoyed me when I saw Ochs on stage in productions at that time was that he was played as a grotesque , everything greatly exaggerated . |
| 21 | " Henry was carrying his books , and suddenly he saw Sheila in the distance . " |
| 22 | Rather than pub landlord or beanery boss , Lorne saw Gary as a celebrity restaurateur . |
| 23 | He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden . |
| 24 | Yesterday saw Hopkinson in sad , frustrated mood , attacking the ‘ complacency ’ among many field sportsmen and bewailing the lack of support he has received over the past seven years . |
| 25 | I never saw Moscow in the heyday of the great parades of May and November . |
| 26 | Perhaps he saw Erik on those stairs , and wanted to help us . ’ |
| 27 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 28 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 29 | Late ‘ 76 saw Linda in this country with an excellent show and playing with the same guitarists that had appeared on the album . |
| 30 | The conductor saw Donna to her seat and ensured she was comfortable . |