Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pron] saw [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath the shirt I saw the outline of her breasts . |
| 2 | The board itself saw the advantage of this course but the chairman , Humphrey Browne , was worried that privatization would lead to a crippling strike . |
| 3 | Later in the afternoon I saw a meal for all 600 prisoners being cooked in one gigantic iron pot over a blazing fire . |
| 4 | Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 . |
| 5 | As he turned the door handle to enter the building he saw a storm-trooper come out of one of the side rooms . |
| 6 | Around the corner of the building he saw a figure on a bike speeding away . |
| 7 | That ‘ blatant behaviour ’ was confirmed by another old friend of the Duchess who saw the couple sharing an intimate dinner for two ‘ with their legs entwined under the table ’ in Chelsea 's exclusive L'Incontro restaurant earlier this year . |
| 8 | Then he pushed him towards the light , and in the light he saw the face of a boy of twenty . |
| 9 | I started running and when I reached this end of the scaffolding I saw a woman bending over something on the ground at the other end . |
| 10 | He braked in the yard at the rear of the Lodge , and through the windscreen I saw a plume of smoke rising almost vertically beyond a pantiled outbuilding which I assumed must be Laura 's studio . |
| 11 | At a turn in the corridor she saw a picture she remembered , a ship at sea , and under the waves a chariot racing from a previous painting . |
| 12 | As the mountain loomed over Rincewind like the biggest fly-swatter in the universe he saw a cave mouth . |
| 13 | The moment I saw the church , although there were considerable differences — the main and obvious one being it was not on a hill — I accepted it as my church . |
| 14 | I had n't come to this place with the conscious intention of divesting myself of my now cumbersome virginity ; but from the moment I saw the actor again — certainly from the moment his arms went round me and I felt the sense of fond familiarity , of affection rediscovered — I knew it was inevitable that we should , sooner or later , make love . |
| 15 | All the same , Wickham had been invited to have the flat searched and might sometime do so , although for the moment he saw no justification for it . |
| 16 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 17 | And through the window of the spaceship they saw the Moon before them , cold , white and beautiful ; and under the Moon , there was the Moon colony ! |
| 18 | This broader context is particularly important for an understanding of the earliest stages of the creation of the Frankish kingdom , for the Franks and the Merovingians were relatively late participants in the crisis which saw the collapse of the western Empire and the establishment of the successor states . |
| 19 | This was the period which saw a revolution in popular music and the beginning of rock'n'roll . |
| 20 | A comparison of Sidonius and Avitus reveals something of the continuities and discontinuities of the late fifth and early sixth centuries , and thus of the period which saw the transformation of the barbarian settlements into fully fledged kingdoms . |
| 21 | The 1990s was the decade which saw the victory of the FMLN guerillas in El Salvador . |
| 22 | He would not have to wait long — in the distance he saw a flight of P-51s engaged in combat simulation , just the scenario for some ‘ rat-racing ’ . |
| 23 | I was in the apple barrel the night we saw the island , and I heard every word you said . |
| 24 | Worst of all we are given no true insights into the man or the legend which saw the production of more than 75 films and made a poor boy from Lambeth the most famous and feted individual in the world . |
| 25 | Mrs Swales told the court she saw a lot of shouting and arguing , but she did not intervene or try to get involved . |
| 26 | On the television he saw the President waving at the cameras before the doors on Air Force One closed . |
| 27 | When the road dipped down to the curved span of the bridge she saw the water far below , snaking its way between the high rock walls of a narrow gorge . |
| 28 | In the library she saw an exhibition dedicated to the war poets and plans for the library extension ; she met students and researchers using some of the library 's on-line and interactive computer systems . |
| 29 | Through the smoke he saw the balloon dropping , its basket swinging wildly . |
| 30 | In the morning I saw the flute player — a small green frog , like an emerald brooch to adorn a tree . |