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

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1 Considering he was joining an honour roll that included his big brother John , it was somehow fitting that Patrick played the leading role in the two-hour 48-minute finale to the grand prix circuit which saw the younger McEnroe and Jim Grabb dismiss the more experienced Anders Jarryd and John Fitzgerald 7-5 , 7-6 , 5-7 , 6-3 .
2 Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures .
3 This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue .
4 In the pairs Ronnie Oliver and Ian McClure had a 21-14 win over Emmet Downey and Gary Rutledge in a match which saw the brilliant McClure on the top of his form .
5 This year , which must prove that we dreamed it up , it was the THIRD Monday which saw the longest queues of all — to see John McEnroe and Michael Stich win the final set of the men 's doubles .
6 It was a day which saw the political demise of UDP man Ken Kerr and a poor showing for the Ulster Unionist party on the Waterside , where only group leader John Adams was re-elected , despite fielding four men .
7 On a day which saw the All-Ireland side go down to England 16-2 , Curran made a strong start in her under 18 confrontation with Kate Warne-Holland .
8 But Wessels , with 103 off 124 balls , and Rushmere ( 64 ) took them home by six wickets with five deliveries to spare , a fitting end to a summer which saw the domestic game overshadowed by international action on foreign fields .
9 1981 — the year which saw the attempted assassinations of President Reagan and Pope John Paul .
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