Example sentences of "he saw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , what he saw outside the window had too much potency , too much spell-binding sweetness for him to turn his back on it . |
| 2 | If what he saw through security did not impress him , Tammuz need never know he 'd had a visitor . |
| 3 | Did n't she realise that he saw through every trick she used . |
| 4 | But he saw through this . ’ |
| 5 | He saw through the toadying , of course he did . |
| 6 | It was simply that the Katherine he saw through Thomas seemed a stranger . |
| 7 | He saw through the cabins , the holds and the ballast bilges . |
| 8 | Luke emphasised the insult by letting his gaze roam insolently over her robe , just as if he saw through it to the single garment she still had on underneath . |
| 9 | Then a conceptual emotion was released in him which transmuted what he saw into theory , a recognition of the cerebral nature of an art which transported him beyond the mere explanation of the visible . |
| 10 | He saw about a dozen street ruffians trailing them through the streets . |
| 11 | Clench ( 1947 ) discounted the idea of imbricata being a separate variety at all because of the complete intergradation he saw between the forms . |
| 12 | The playwright St John Ervine was standing nearby and described what he saw to the Daily Mail : |
| 13 | Towers had a fascination for Hardy , and having designed many in his professional days which were never built , he saw to it that Max Gate had not one , but two . |
| 14 | In addition , he saw to it that the players had decent changing-rooms , and ‘ expert and scientific training methods ’ to ‘ preserve and lengthen their careers ’ ( Examiner ) . |
| 15 | He saw to it that notices of the birth appeared in The Times and the Telegraph within another twenty-four hours . |
| 16 | And every night , before Swan arrived , he saw to it that the curtains were drawn back and the window was open wide so that the great white bird could come gliding right into the room and land on the floor beside his bed . |
| 17 | If these modifications are called ‘ sensations ’ , and if it is allowed that different substances can be related causally , then on this view something 's looking white to someone is his having certain sensations which are excited in him by what we would ordinarily say was the object he saw to be white . |
| 18 | He took two steps which brought him into contact with me : he joined the ATC Squadron , and he saw to it that he did Fire-Watch duty on my nights . |
| 19 | They grew big and strong and healthy , for he saw to it that they had all of the best , particularly in winter , and nothing to fear — except the running knot in the hedge-gap and the wood-path . |
| 20 | But when he glanced down at his chest , he saw to his intense relief the smashed casing and circuitry of his radio showing through torn material . |
| 21 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 22 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 23 | The war inside himself was a small conflagration compared with the bombardments he saw for himself and read about daily . |
| 24 | On April 1-2 he saw for himself the effects of internecine war when he toured the Natal townships ; on April 5 , after his meeting with de Klerk , it was announced that talks would take place in the near future about the remaining obstacles to full negotiations . |
| 25 | But much of it he saw for himself . |
| 26 | Here is an American artist writing about his dismay at the work he saw at Paris in 1831 : |
| 27 | He hated what he saw at Evanston . |
| 28 | Looking over his shoulder he saw at once the brass bedstead , and the sewing-machine table on top of which Stanley had said he would find the boxes of glass balls . |
| 29 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 30 | Poole , as one who had already thought of emigrating to America , listened sympathetically ; but he saw at once that the scheme could never succeed , remarking to a friend that however perfectible human nature might be , it was ‘ not yet perfect enough ’ for Pantisocracy . |