Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Additionally there were protests from the Elf colonies in the Old World who saw the departure of the armies as a betrayal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Framed in the narrow window she saw the landscape , lit and brilliant as the background of a painting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were other professional counsellors who saw the Princess . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With her long sight she saw the size of the fire , and — well , she realised it would need at least five fire-engines . |
| 12 | Fran regretted her hasty words the very moment she saw the way his mouth thinned into a cold anger . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas . |
| 16 | Although not a political animal she saw the need to speak up for the Africans ; articulate on their behalf when so often they were not given opportunity to speak for themselves . |
| 17 | MacLeod has toughened up the side during a close season which saw the club turn full-time following a flirtation with relegation last year . |
| 18 | Low churchman versus high churchman ; philosopher of religion and science versus close student of the Bible ; radical divine versus enquiring conservative ; suspecter of orthodoxy versus a young man who saw the stature of the Catholic tradition . |
| 19 | Philip ran towards it and as he came round the slight bend in the wide path he saw the boy tugging at it . |
| 20 | At Count Begouen 's Pyrenean château she saw the cave art nearby and met the Abbé Breuil . |
| 21 | Many of the Asian traders who saw the attack would n't be interviewed for fear of reprisals . |
| 22 | For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a young boy , about 15 years old , with a fresh face and golden curls . |
| 23 | For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a young boy , about 15 years old , with a fresh face and golden curls . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |