Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 2 | And we had to help them to move and you know help them to move their things and really I saw the kind of difficulties the girls would be living under . |
| 3 | Her topcoat was open , and I saw the belt of knives — with one missing — strung from shoulder to waist . |
| 4 | When I saw the amount of entries I had to sift through , my gills went into overdrive and I hyperventilated . |
| 5 | These writers were , the Woods claim , defending the declining way of life of the landed aristocracy , challenged by urban developments which saw the rise of traders , manufacturers , artisans and wage-labourers many of whom had migrated from rural areas where they had worked as slaves and peasants for the old nobility . |
| 6 | She then returned to work for JS in 1992 at Watchmoor Park , on the deli counter , having been a customer throughout the decades which saw the development of supermarkets into the modern stores of today . |
| 7 | As they approached the workshop at the Piggeries — there had been no pigs there since her grandfather 's day — she saw the clump of men , half turned away , appearing uninterested . |
| 8 | But soon Owen 's erstwhile disciple T. H. Huxley began to question the dinosaurs ' relationships to lizards ; he saw the closeness of birds to some reptiles , and inferred that at least some dinosaurs had gone on two legs rather than four , the Iguanodon among them . |
| 9 | Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . |