Example sentences of "[pron] saw [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 2 | She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way . |
| 3 | A belated attempt at abdomen-straining brought it swimming back into fuzzy focus , but that dial was all I saw during the remainder of an interminable fast-jet loop . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 6 | When she arrived at the bus station she saw on the wall behind her bold , splashy writing in foreign characters , Arabic maybe or Urdu , and small , disordered scribbles around the glass faces of the timetables , which , although an irritation , caused Rita no real pain . |
| 7 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 8 | She saw by the look on his face that he was half afraid of her . |
| 9 | It was a quarter past five , she saw from the clock on Bank Station . |
| 10 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But , as we saw in the discussion of neoclassicism , it was unrealistic to suppose that questions of intent and responsibility could be abandoned . |
| 13 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
| 14 | Of course , this reflects the very different role of the American courts vis-a-vis other governmental institutions but , as we saw in the discussion of courts and rights ( chapter 18 ) , if one has no right to information it becomes extremely difficult to exercise all manner of other rights . |
| 15 | As we saw in the case of the bacteria on a pin 's head , successive splittings into two can generate a very large number of cells in rather a short time . |
| 16 | Just as we saw in the case of a bank 's assets , these two criteria tend to conflict . |
| 17 | Do you remember that erm woman we saw in the park with those two little girls ? |
| 18 | There are still problems to iron out , and as we saw in the passage by Ross , there are still inconsistencies . |
| 19 | Nevertheless we saw in the context of rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) that there are some cases ( summarized by curve A of Fig. 17.6 ) for which there are marked similarities between the unstable modes and the observed motion when the critical condition is just exceeded . |
| 20 | As we saw in the example of the cleaner fish ( pages 186–7 ) , reciprocal altruism is not confined to members of a single species . |
| 21 | As we saw in the section on deterrence , all the evidence is that the penal system is engaging in a massive overkill operation — which amounts to a massive infringement of the human rights of those it punishes excessively . |
| 22 | Feelings , as we saw in the entry under that heading ( see pages 66 to 69 ) , either help or hinder your behaviour . |
| 23 | An exciting game at Heathfield saw Dawn Nicholson top score on 22 points for the home team as they saw off the challenge of Shildon Aces by 68 points to 47 . |
| 24 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 25 | The life-style , the communes , the language , the dress , the hair-styles and blue-tinted glasses of the men ( and women ) of the 1860s were designed to distance them from what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Much of their concern centred on what they saw as the imposition from above of particular versions of ‘ good primary practice ’ and the relationship between teachers ' allegiance to these and their career prospects . |
| 28 | The overwhelming desire of the Chris Pattens and Sarah Hoggs and Michael Heseltines was to get away from what they saw as the incubus of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 29 | This is not to say that they opposed coalition in 1922 merely from personal motives ; they had a legitimate ambition to serve their country and resented what they saw as the promotion of less able Liberals . |
| 30 | They went to town on the story , piled up what they saw as the evidence against my father until everyone , it seemed , thought he was guilty . ’ |