Example sentences of "[noun] saw [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Race 4 for the Eric Freeman Trophy in force 2–3 winds outside the harbour saw Fenwick over the line at the start . |
| 2 | Freud saw attachment to the mother as becoming , during the early years of childhood , imbued with the emerging sexual impulses ; and the father rapidly becoming seen ( not usually consciously ) as an obstacle to gratification of these impulses . |
| 3 | Linda saw ankle-boots beside the bed . |
| 4 | An eye-witness saw Verri in the back seat gesturing towards the open telephone line and died shortly afterwards . |
| 5 | She says that she and her husband saw Kimberley on the ground below the window . |
| 6 | Jed saw Carol at the end of the corridor and began to walk towards her . |
| 7 | In January 1916 , six months before he met O'Keeffe , 3 Stieglitz saw examples of the charcoal drawings she had made the previous autumn and exclaimed : ‘ Why they 're genuinely fine things — You say a woman did these — She 's an unusual woman — She 's broad-minded , she 's bigger than most women , but she 's got the sensitive emotion — I 'd know she was a woman — Look at that line . ’ |
| 8 | Language is made up of units that may be repeated sequentially ( e.g. papa ) or combined recursively ( e.g. Bill saw John in the car ) and so a way of recording competing interpretations is needed which distinguishes between different tokens of the same unit . |
| 9 | Christina saw Edward about the hotel for the next few days . |
| 10 | Even the ever-ebullient Sir Peter Parker saw parts of the commuter system ‘ rattling into decline ’ , and nobody was surprised when in 1979 the government referred the services to the Monopolies & Mergers Commission . |
| 11 | Mark saw Jesus as the Messiah . |
| 12 | The post of Director General for regional policy was established in 1968 , and the next year saw proposals by the Commission for the creation of regional aid instruments . |
| 13 | After this a detective saw Dad in the street and said that he wanted to interview Russell . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Osburn saw hope for the future in Englishmen mending their ways . |