Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pron] saw [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Deborah Ford told ambulance officers she saw the shark take her husband , John . |
2 | In line with its notions of community crime prevention it saw the way forward to be shifting the emphasis from custodial institutions to punishment in the community . |
3 | If the tide was low the two of them watched the gleams on the foreshore , at half tide they heard the water chuckling , waiting to lift the boats , at flood tide they saw the river as a powerful god , bearded with the white foam of detergents , calling home the twenty-seven lost rivers of London , sighing as the night declined . |
4 | Normally this point is proved by the officer in the case examining the registration document and including in his statement a passage such as ‘ On examining the vehicle 's registration document I saw the date of first registration was … ’ |
5 | In the time following The Waste Land he saw the world despairingly , in terms of inane , savage horror . |
6 | Fans of the Good Morning programme who saw a holiday report on Amsterdam , presented by on May 5 , may be surprised to know they were in fact watching a colleague . |
7 | Littleborough is interesting as a weaving town which saw the beginning of the rise of cotton mills , but fell behind when the great boom concentrated the industry in the palatial brick mills of Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Bolton , et al . |
8 | Many Bank Assistant members who saw the Association 's Submission to the Labour Court commented that it contained a case which was irresistible . |
9 | Out of the bus window he saw a manor house , with barley-sugar-stick chimneys . |
10 | However , unlike the pupils at school A they saw the organization of the school as having little influence on their educational opportunities , rather they saw the attitudes of the teachers as being paramount , concluding that the prevailing attitudes held by certain teachers would undermine the organization of any school . |
11 | In the gathering dusk he saw the boy , his back to him , staring down the darkening street . |
12 | In the driving mirror I saw the driver of the estate-car was growing restive . |