Example sentences of "[pron] saw [prep] the [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But , as we saw in the discussion of neoclassicism , it was unrealistic to suppose that questions of intent and responsibility could be abandoned . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Just as we saw in the case of a bank 's assets , these two criteria tend to conflict . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As we saw in the example of the cleaner fish ( pages 186–7 ) , reciprocal altruism is not confined to members of a single species . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It can be seen as another outburst of dissatisfaction about the direction taken by the Cultural Revolution and the failure to eliminate what they saw as the rise of a ‘ Soviet Union type of privileged class ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 753 ) . |
| 18 | They protested that the labelling of SM as fascist trivialized the real fight against fascism , and condemned what they saw as the policing of sexual identity by LASM . |
| 19 | They were saddened by what they saw as the betrayal of the Labour Party by its leader Ramsay MacDonald , who had joined the National Government . |
| 20 | Then to everyone 's surprise they saw on the side of the track a little old man perhaps in his seventies , wearing an old-fashioned waistcoat and jacket , standing in a brick arch-shaped embrasure looking anxiously at the train . |
| 21 | The Centre Party was also committed to ending what it saw as the system of political patronage and was more sceptical than the other main parties about the possibility of Finland joining the European Communities . |
| 22 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 23 | Turning , he saw at the end of the cul-de-sac a police-car . |
| 24 | This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him . |
| 25 | To him , the " checks and balances " of Natural Selection were only some of the forces operating in what he saw as the evolution of spirit or mind through matter . |
| 26 | The poet did not share this sense , he actively disliked it , but he could not escape — not even in Europe — from what he saw as the balefulness of that inheritance . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | His aims included rectifying what he saw as the lack of information on derived publications , and on the time differences between thesis completion and publication . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | 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 . |