Example sentences of "[pron] saw in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 2 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 3 | ( Funnily enough , years later in France I saw in the Orange branch of the Credit Agricole exactly the same slogan used to advertise personal loans . ) |
| 4 | As Keeton acknowledges , Dicey ‘ inherited an outlook upon the constitution which owed something to Burke , Blackstone and Bagehot , and which saw in the English system the climax of political achievement ’ . |
| 5 | His body stiffened ; there was a change in him , Robyn felt it , knew it and then he drew back and she saw in a fleeting moment his own look of self-disgust . |
| 6 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 7 | Many of the prominent afrancesados were cultured bureaucrats who saw in the Napoleonic system a hope of ordered regeneration by modern laws and administrative practices . |
| 8 | This effort , as far as the administrative machinery was concerned , was initiated by the French advisers who came to Spain in the early years of the century with the first Bourbon king , Philip V ; later it was encouraged by Choiseul , who saw in the effective mobilization of the resources of his ally the means to defeat England and lay the foundations of a Franco-Spanish world power . |
| 9 | The men of the town carried long walking sticks of the sort one saw in the ancient temple reliefs . |
| 10 | As we saw in a previous chapter , all the planes or levels of the human being interact with one another , and defects arising in one can be experienced by the others and can cause upsets in them . |
| 11 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |
| 12 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 13 | We saw in the first chapter how we can understand more about ourselves according to our type of personality . |
| 14 | Keats , as we saw in the preceding section , concluded with the same emphasis . |
| 15 | I remember we saw in the other shop It happened again . |
| 16 | This can cast us back to that sense of aestheticism and dedication that we saw in the sixth elegy . |
| 17 | As we saw in the last section , all shops offer a service to the customer , although the type of service may vary . |
| 18 | As we saw in the last section , knowing your product well helps sell goods . |
| 19 | As we saw in the last chapter , the operation of discretion by the police is a particular fascination in the sociology of policing , but discretion is often viewed narrowly in terms of law : whether the police apply or omit the letter of the law . |
| 20 | As we saw in the last chapter , Hooke 's law is really only true for small strains and at large strains the interatomic force curve bends over so that the strain energy is less than we have calculated , very roughly about half . |
| 21 | A further 44 per cent of all elderly people live only with a spouse and , as we saw in the last chapter , only about 14 per cent are living with others- ‘ non-spouses ’ . |
| 22 | As we saw in the last chapter , he , too , believed in the possibility of an objective category of crime which was not necessarily the same as that defined by the existing criminal law , and its source — the reason of the ‘ few thinking men in every nation ’ seems just as elitist and potentially authoritarian . |
| 23 | By itself this association between earnings and company size is not unique to Japan , but as we saw in the last chapter the number of workers affected is greater . |
| 24 | But , as we saw in the last chapter , there may be reasons to reject this analysis of causation in favour of the one involving real connections or causal powers or both . |
| 25 | As we saw in the last chapter , a study in William Dement 's laboratory verified that external stimuli could indeed be incorporated into dreams during REM sleep . |
| 26 | This hierarchy within physics was , as we saw in the last chapter , also noted by Becher ( 1984 ) , in his examination of the ‘ culture ’ of disciplines . |
| 27 | As we saw in the last chapter the anointed king of Israel was equipped with the Spirit to enable him to carry out his work ; hence the expectation of Isaiah 11:1 ff that the Messiah would also be equipped , in fuller measure , with that Spirit . |
| 28 | On the one hand , as we saw in the last chapter , we are uncertain about the limits of our own species . |
| 29 | As we saw in the last chapter , quantum mechanics tells us that all particles are in fact waves , and that the higher the energy of a particle , the smaller the wavelength of the corresponding wave . |
| 30 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |