Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] saw [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
2 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
3 | The Die-hards were opposed to the rise of a socialist Labour party and militant trade unionism , which they saw as a revolutionary threat to property and the stability of British society . |
4 | The regular , monotonous monastic discipline gave the monks a peace and equanimity which they saw as a tranquil experience of God which was fully in tune with their normal lives . |
5 | In 1811 the Luddites rioted and destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs . |
6 | Herr Kohl acknowledged that the far Right was gaining support from people opposed to the EC 's Maastricht agreement , which they saw as an anti-nationalist pact to give up the Deutschemark . |
7 | When he looked back upon his short time at the Choir School of King 's College , it was the meeting with Milner-White which he saw as the memorable gift from the school . |
8 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
9 | When 1951 ended he could justifiably let rip in more frivolous fashion on ‘ Huntin' , Shootin' and Fishin' ’ decorations for the Chelsea Arts Ball at which he saw in the new year . |
10 | Erm , two possibles have come er h have appeared , both of whom er w say they would er , one is is an Appalachian dance group , called Just for Kicks , who I saw at the open |
11 | As a local — he was from Thorn — and as a farmer with business interests in the Free City , they had trusted his leadership far more than they trusted Forster , whom they saw as a boorish Bavarian appointed by Berlin . |
12 | For years he had continued a running battle with producers and film companies whom he saw as the bad guys . |
13 | I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months . |
14 | She also felt that age 6 was too early to make what she saw as a drastic decision — once out of mainstream education she felt he would be unlikely to get back . |
15 | I am so jealous and protective of her , ’ but , close as she was to Louise , she could n't bring herself to admit what she saw as the black depths of her failure with her daughter . |
16 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
17 | What we saw as an interesting and unusual opportunity , they saw as a second-best . |
18 | She goes every evening to the post , ’ and they began to laugh again at what they saw as a mocking mirror of their own flowering . |
19 | They had wanted an updating of canon law , a reassertion of control over Church organizations , the declaration of Mary 's Assumption ( perhaps as a sop to the pope ) , and a firm condemnation of nascent ecumenism and what they saw as a new outbreak of modernism . |
20 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
21 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
22 | The Kiev Rada , panic-stricken at what they saw as a Russian invasion , summoned the German army to defend their power by taking over the western Ukraine and its grain resources . |
23 | Certainly the fifties was remarkable for the self-assuredness with which writers defended what they saw as a fresh start for English literature , and for the equally unanimous revision this view underwent not ten years later . |
24 | In the end they were committed , as he was , to the preservation of a Protestant Ulster , to the suppression of what they saw as a republican rebellion , and to the restoration of majority rule in Northern Ireland . |
25 | Often they had not told anyone about what they saw as a trivial event , but had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear until they resurfaced in the shape of an obsession . |
26 | Atlanticists attacked what they saw as a false parallelism in de Gaulle 's treatment of the two superpowers . |
27 | They show in particular how accountants came to feel frustrated by their attempts to set standards within what they saw as an unhelpful legal environment . |
28 | Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks . |
29 | Strong trade unions , especially in the public sector , had successfully resisted attacks on the Welfare State in the past , and so needed to be defeated if the Tories ’ solution to what they saw as the major problem — inflation — were to be successful . |
30 | Thus Attoh Ahuma ( who was also known as a clergyman , the Revd S.R.B. Solomon ) joined with another local churchman , the Revd Eggijir Assam , to launch the Gold Coast Aborigine , in which they promised to redress what they saw as the colonial imbalance in the education of local Africans : |