Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] saw the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |
| 2 | The normal reason for this is that , although you saw the graphic on the page and it printed correctly on the LaserWriter you copied the publication onto a disk and sent that to the bureau . |
| 3 | The year 1927 was a good year from several viewpoints , although it saw the death of Sir Anker Simmons ( knighted in 1920 ) , one of the Club 's quartet of founders . |
| 4 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you were exaggerating , ’ Oliver admitted , ‘ until I saw the menace in that fellow 's eyes . ’ |
| 6 | He says : I still was n't sure about him until I saw the video of his goals . |
| 7 | Well cos I saw the cover of it and it looked really good . |
| 8 | These are often documents that were never included in the original audit — perhaps never existed until someone saw the potential of the new system and decided to exploit it . |
| 9 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 10 | Mind you , if you saw the state of his shirts , you might agree that a little mollycoddling was in order . |
| 11 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 12 | If they saw the state of you , you 're going to get pay day . |
| 13 | I never sold a garment or got an order from this source , I wonder if they saw the light of day . |
| 14 | It sounded well enough until they saw the size of the rations . |
| 15 | But although delegates opposed the Home Secretary 's proposals , they decided to put the motion on ice until they saw the strength of his final document on the matter , said Chris Burgess , secretary of the Suffolk Police Federation . |
| 16 | How could they have known he was going to that cinema when he had n't known himself until he saw the name at the station ? |
| 17 | Because they saw the Pope as the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation and the Roman Catholics as apostates , they fiercely attacked all Church of England rites and ceremonies which followed those of Rome , including its set prayers , its administration of the Sacraments , the use of altars instead of tables , its celebrations of saints ' days , its music and its vestments . |
| 18 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 19 | Perhaps the man was excited because he saw the chance of making more money , Kirov rejected , in the hope that reminding himself of the mercenary side of the Jew 's character might make his job a little easier . |
| 20 | Brunel made the broad gauge because he saw the advantage of stability , and making extra room for passengers |
| 21 | Some forms of psychotherapy are based on the work of Reich , an analyst who gave up ‘ talking ’ therapy because he saw the possibility of releasing emotional tension locked into the body , and making faster contact with the sources of conflict that cause pain and distress . |
| 22 | Elizabeth 's reign is now seen to be of crucial importance because it saw the completion of the Protestantization of the English people and witnessed the creation of a uniquely English style of Protestant church which was later to be labelled Anglicanism . |
| 23 | After they saw the pig on Central News South last night — Environmental Health officers warned the pig 's owner that she 's breaking the law . |
| 24 | When I saw the title of the next album — ‘ The Sunday Brunch ’ — I immediately assumed this must be the ‘ American ’ one ( ) . |
| 25 | ‘ I used to have the impression that I should feel almost privileged to work at certain big-name establishments when I saw the size of my pay packet , and I never used to know my general manager . |
| 26 | When I saw the child at 11 p.m. he was very distressed and restless and matched the remedy picture of aconite . |
| 27 | I remember the shock of fear when I heard her scream and the sickening jolt of pain through my stomach when I saw the angle of her hand to her arm . |
| 28 | When I saw the amount of entries I had to sift through , my gills went into overdrive and I hyperventilated . |
| 29 | Now I 'd have to say when I saw the report in the Observer , which was a couple of months ago , the rape in the quad report , my feeling was that this was a national newspaper picking on Oxford because Oxford and sex makes great headlines and it was going to be a good sell , and I felt that it was inappropriate in that sexual harassment is a problem in other campuses . |
| 30 | I was almost at the centre of the group when I saw the light in the trees . |