Example sentences of "[noun] saw [noun prp] [prep] [art] [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 | David saw ACSS as a pressure group ( ‘ Not like Greenpeace . |
| 3 | An eye-witness saw Verri in the back seat gesturing towards the open telephone line and died shortly afterwards . |
| 4 | She says that she and her husband saw Kimberley on the ground below the window . |
| 5 | Are we to deduce from this that Vincent saw Theo as an artist-manqué , or was he simply trying , not too hard in this instance , to shift the guilt a child feels before a self-sacrificing parent ? |
| 6 | Having lost their captain , Zbigniew Boniek , arguably the greatest of Polish footballers , to Juventus , Widzew saw Dziekanowski as a replacement and so , at 21 , ‘ Jacki ’ was transferred in 1984 for 21m zlotys , a record between Polish clubs , amounting at that time to some £200,000 . |
| 7 | Jed saw Carol at the end of the corridor and began to walk towards her . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Christina saw Edward about the hotel for the next few days . |
| 11 | This letter implies that Richardson saw Leapor as a poet of genuine merit . |
| 12 | Rather than pub landlord or beanery boss , Lorne saw Gary as a celebrity restaurateur . |
| 13 | Mark saw Jesus as the Messiah . |
| 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 . |