Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 2 | Little is still known of the designers and speculators of this part of the town 's growth , save that they were often little more than smallholders or jobbing builders who saw the possibility of some quick profits on their small capital . |
| 3 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 4 | But whoever it was , they were determined to catch Artemis , for when Artemis stole another look she saw the horse behind was really stretching out . |
| 5 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 6 | ‘ Attempt to drive ’ can be proved by the officer in the case or another witness who saw the defendant attempting to drive . |
| 7 | The unprecedented freedom of expression facilitated a ‘ semi-decadent ’ cultural revival which saw the flowering of avant-garde experiment in art , music , theatre and literature . |
| 8 | Additionally there were protests from the Elf colonies in the Old World who saw the departure of the armies as a betrayal . |
| 9 | This curious mingling of piety , enthusiasm and sadistic cruelty is recorded time and again in the vernacular literature of the age — sometimes naively , sometimes satirically , for there were evidently plenty of reflective men who saw the paradox , and pondered on it . |
| 10 | They believed , you see , that the tortoise was an animal of great purity — in its hard-soft form they saw the meeting of Yin and Yang , of Heaven and Earth . |
| 11 | This time they saw the church in all its Moorish exuberance . |
| 12 | Framed in the narrow window she saw the landscape , lit and brilliant as the background of a painting . |
| 13 | Celebrities among the 2,000 fans who saw the Maple Leafs win a 6–5 victory included actresses Susan George , Fiona Fullerton , Patricia Hodge and Cherie Lunghi , and society hostess Ivana Trump . |
| 14 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |
| 15 | After that war we saw the rise of communism and fascism and of Hitler . |
| 16 | And in that moment he saw the shape formed by the moving depths . |
| 17 | There were other professional counsellors who saw the Princess . |
| 18 | She had laughed then at the vivid imagination of the child , but now for a brief moment she saw the city as Maggie saw it , basking in the first rays of the sun and oblivious to the dangerous mist below that might suck it in before it could wake up and take wing against the now blue blue sky . |
| 19 | For Venturi , an important development in art criticism came in the eighteenth century which saw the foundation of aesthetics and the rise of philosophies for which art was an indispensable ingredient . |
| 20 | With her long sight she saw the size of the fire , and — well , she realised it would need at least five fire-engines . |
| 21 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 22 | Fran regretted her hasty words the very moment she saw the way his mouth thinned into a cold anger . |
| 23 | It soon became clear that there was a struggle going on within his party , between the Communists , who wanted violent measures , completely unscrupulous , and the more moderate Socialists , aided by one or two older leaders who saw the promise of Aung San . |
| 24 | Within ten seconds he saw the silhouette of someone approaching beyond the glass . |
| 25 | Whitlock swung the Golf Corbio on to the sliproad , past the hoarding , and as he reached the crest of the first rise he saw the plant laid out before him , hemmed in behind ten-feet-high fencing crowned with layers of barbed wire , all of which he later discovered could be electrified at the flick of a switch . |
| 26 | The outlook , particularly since the general election which saw the defeat of two of the Peace-Tax Campaign 's principal supporters in parliament — Mr A Lyon and Mr F Hooley — is not too encouraging . |
| 27 | On the southern side she saw the mandarin silks of the beginnings of civilisation and the huge courage of the Long March ; and on the other , to the north , the eternal silence of the greatest desolation . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
| 29 | He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand . |
| 30 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |