Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] saw the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |
| 2 | Lalumière , in an address to the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London on Feb. 28 , 1991 , said that she saw the Council of Europe as an important institutional link between western and eastern Europe , particularly in the field of human rights . |
| 3 | It was clear that she saw the drift of his question but her answer was simple : ‘ Granny seemed to exercise a sort of spell over her sons , her husband too , I think . |
| 4 | However in nineteen thirty s nineteen forty seven this was n't actually realizing , it was only later on that they saw the incompatibility of the two aims . |
| 5 | It is also important to note that they saw the taking of law into their own hands as temporary , and pending the recognition by that state of its mistaken attitude towards them and their right to a degree of autonomy . |
| 6 | But both Pound and Lewis were American or Americanized enough to have on the contrary a professional attitude to their respective arts , in the quite precise sense that they saw the continuity of art traditions ensured by the atelier , the master instructing his prentices . |
| 7 | This means that they saw the death of Jesus as part of God 's plan . |
| 8 | The year 1927 was a good year from several viewpoints , although it saw the death of Sir Anker Simmons ( knighted in 1920 ) , one of the Club 's quartet of founders . |
| 9 | It was notable in one respect , in that it saw the development of Nicholson 's romance with the stunningly attractive former model , Mimi Machu , who appeared in Psych-Out well down the list of credits under the pseudonym of I.J. Jefferson . |
| 10 | Every goddam way they had taken Harry 's picture , so that he saw the part of Harry 's head that was intact , and the part that was blasted . |
| 11 | Although Woolf stated that ‘ there is no single cause of riots ’ ( para 9.23 ) it may not be too great a distortion to say that he saw the lack of legitimacy of the prison for its inmates as the key factor in explaining the disorders . |
| 12 | It also suggests that he saw the gift of the Spirit as the supreme characteristic of the kingdom . |
| 13 | Her topcoat was open , and I saw the belt of knives — with one missing — strung from shoulder to waist . |
| 14 | Somebody brought a light and I saw the inside of the house . |
| 15 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
| 16 | I thought it was a brown leaf , but it moved again , and I saw the object of my greatest dread , a toad . |
| 17 | He says : I still was n't sure about him until I saw the video of his goals . |
| 18 | Well cos I saw the cover of it and it looked really good . |
| 19 | These are often documents that were never included in the original audit — perhaps never existed until someone saw the potential of the new system and decided to exploit it . |
| 20 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 21 | Briefly his gaze rested on Rachel and she saw the flicker of uncertainty in his eyes but there was no time for questions . |
| 22 | She saw her aloneness , now loneliness , and she saw the vista of age , which she had never contemplated before . |
| 23 | When he came to the part about the clip he glanced up , and she saw the flare of excitement in his silvery-green eyes before they dropped once again to the page . |
| 24 | He smiled , and she saw the gleam of perfect white teeth . |
| 25 | Mind you , if you saw the state of his shirts , you might agree that a little mollycoddling was in order . |
| 26 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 27 | If they saw the state of you , you 're going to get pay day . |
| 28 | I never sold a garment or got an order from this source , I wonder if they saw the light of day . |
| 29 | It sounded well enough until they saw the size of the rations . |
| 30 | But although delegates opposed the Home Secretary 's proposals , they decided to put the motion on ice until they saw the strength of his final document on the matter , said Chris Burgess , secretary of the Suffolk Police Federation . |