Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] saw the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | There were other professional counsellors who saw the Princess . |
6 | The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas . |
7 | The imagery of the ‘ black bomber , used in Handsworth was extended to the notion that there were groups of alienated and criminalized young blacks who saw the riots as a chance to engage in an ‘ orgy of looting ’ . |
8 | Many of the Asian traders who saw the attack would n't be interviewed for fear of reprisals . |
9 | 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 . |