Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] saw [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , all seized on an element of structural and formal strength in his work , which they saw as a corrective to the formlessness which had characterized so much French painting since the Impressionists had insisted on the validity of an instantaneous form of vision , that had so often dissolved the solidity of the material world into a haze of atmospheric colour and light . |
| 2 | In 1951 Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow ; Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson resigned from the Labour government in protest at the imposition of charges within the National Health Service , which they saw as an attack on the principles of the Welfare State . |
| 3 | When they had heard the king , they departed ; and lo , the star , which they saw in the east , went before them , till it came and stood over where the young child was . |
| 4 | This plot gave expression to one of Asimov 's pet hates , ‘ pseudo-science ’ , which he saw as a threat to liberty . |
| 5 | The discontinuity with religion which he saw as the dilemma of modern art he takes for granted , and even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century art confirms this . |
| 6 | Lévi-Strauss had already described the fundamental structure of society and language in terms of the exchange of women , which he saw as the basis of all exchange : |
| 7 | While he continued to raise the spectre of a return to German hegemony , his new policy ( voiced for the first time at Bordeaux in September 1949 ) revolved around a Franco-German entente , which he saw as the basis for a European confederation . |
| 8 | When Benny opened them she saw on the bed a thick navy skirt , a Fair Isle jumper in navy and red . |
| 9 | ‘ It was you I saw in the car , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Anyway she was that bad , anyone sa who she saw plus the doctor , you know oh he said , oh no ! |
| 11 | Mrs Jule Evans said she was devastated by the affair , she thinks her husband was mesmerised by the athlete , who he saw as the woman of his dreams . |
| 12 | That 's like the one we saw on the telly a bat . |
| 13 | In Chile , Pablo Neruda was an established poet with a continent-wide reputation before his conversion to Communism under the impact of the Spanish Civil War — particularly the murder of García Lorca , whom he saw as the bearer of the spirit of Republican Spain . |
| 14 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 15 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 16 | She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way . |
| 17 | Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’ |
| 18 | I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning . |
| 19 | Stooping , what I saw of the valley were glimpses of a richly farmed landscape and a dark brown river , all imbued with a hazy crepuscular Tuscan light . |
| 20 | From what I saw of the match he played well . |
| 21 | ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’ |
| 23 | What I saw from the air was a new runway , freshly mown and very inviting . |
| 24 | She gave him her best smile , liking what she saw under the porch lantern . |
| 25 | As patron of the Macintyre organisation the Duchess of York has worked closely with the mentally disabled for some years , but even she was surprised ; delighted with what she saw on the opening night . |
| 26 | During the case of the nine children who were taken into care in February 1991 , one long-standing member of the Panel resigned because of what she saw as the deterioration in the Children 's Panel Hearing system in Orkney since the suspension of Mrs Kemp . |
| 27 | And it is here , in the ‘ thinking ’ , we are told , that the programme falls down due to the ‘ lack of connection between reality and what you saw on the screen ( Charles Catchpole , News of the World , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 28 | Despite what you saw at the club . |
| 29 | ‘ I need to reflect upon what we saw at the Tower . ’ |
| 30 | In our detailed responses to the Secretary of State of the 30th October 1991 and the 10th June 1992 we highlighted what we saw as the threat to strategic planning policies , embodied in the existing county structure plans , as a result of the creation of 23–25 relatively small unitary authorities . |