Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern . |
| 2 | I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months . |
| 3 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 4 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |
| 5 | At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV . |
| 6 | Next to the butcher , where the meat was arranged on silver platters and the chops dressed with paper ruffs , I saw for the first time a shop stocked exclusively with cheeses : nothing else , just cheese . |
| 7 | In between the two mosques , in the great arc of roofs and terraces which surmounted the houses of Shahjehanabad , I saw for the first time that secret Delhi which lies hidden from those who only know the city from ground level . |
| 8 | This saddened us all , but I suppose it was inevitable , and reminded me of things I saw during the 1940 Blitz on London when living in the northern outskirts of the city but working near Hadley Wood , with weekly trips down to our offices at Kings Cross railway terminus . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( 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 . ) |
| 12 | She also felt that age 6 was too early to make what she saw as a drastic decision — once out of mainstream education she felt he would be unlikely to get back . |
| 13 | She discussed in this context who she saw as the twentieth century 's two most influential analysts of theatre : Brecht and Antonin Artaud . |
| 14 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 15 | There was also , she saw with a slight flush , a peach silk camisole and French knickers . |
| 16 | The man she saw on the other side was in his late thirties , his hair receding slightly , but what hair he did have was thick and lustrous and reached the collar of his shirt . |
| 17 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now as we saw at the last council meeting , where a very right and proper and honest and law abiding council and we do n't want to create a situation in which people are encouraged to break the law . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We saw in the first chapter how we can understand more about ourselves according to our type of personality . |
| 25 | Keats , as we saw in the preceding section , concluded with the same emphasis . |
| 26 | I remember we saw in the other shop It happened again . |
| 27 | This can cast us back to that sense of aestheticism and dedication that we saw in the sixth elegy . |
| 28 | As we saw in the last section , all shops offer a service to the customer , although the type of service may vary . |
| 29 | As we saw in the last section , knowing your product well helps sell goods . |
| 30 | 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 . |