Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] saw [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When Benny opened them she saw on the bed a thick navy skirt , a Fair Isle jumper in navy and red . |
| 6 | ‘ It was you I saw in the car , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Anyway she was that bad , anyone sa who she saw plus the doctor , you know oh he said , oh no ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That 's like the one we saw on the telly a bat . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way . |
| 14 | Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’ |
| 15 | I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | From what I saw of the match he played well . |
| 18 | ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’ |
| 19 | What I saw from the air was a new runway , freshly mown and very inviting . |
| 20 | She gave him her best smile , liking what she saw under the porch lantern . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | Despite what you saw at the club . |
| 25 | ‘ I need to reflect upon what we saw at the Tower . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You 'll , you 'll have noticed that er in reading that that it 's , it 's the part er on er Zeffirelli 's erm Jesus of Nazareth that erm that is actually what we saw on the film is actually what 's written here . |
| 28 | Now having said all this you know let's not identify with these too much like the that 's me you know okay , it gives you an incl an idea of your in of your stance where what sort of attitude philosophy and behaviours you prefer to have within a group , okay and if you match those back to what we saw in the group erm then it 's not surprising that the group got on so well together and you know we did n't have too much conflict with the amount of team workers involved because nobody in there wanted to upset anybody else in the team . |
| 29 | What they saw at the end fundamentally shocked his system . |
| 30 | Greenpeace and others also publicized what they saw as the insanity of dumping radioactive material on the sea-bed where it could readily enter the human food chain through fish or other marine organisms . |