Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] saw the " in BNC.

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1 On his way home through Weatherbury he saw the coach from Bath .
2 In Inverness , Johnson held forth on the benefits Scotland had derived from the Union , and after church they saw the Quay and Macbeth 's Castle , and had lunch with Mr Keith , the excise collector , whose wife quizzed Johnson about his ‘ drinking water ’ .
3 The emergence of a science of ecology depended not so much on changing assumptions about Nature as upon the creation of a community ( or communities ) of researchers who saw the study of natural relationships as their primary goal .
4 At the beginning of February we saw the transfer of our bag production to Exeter .
5 Police hoped this would jog the memories of people who saw the two .
6 Three metres in front of Quiss they saw the tall human and skidded to a stop , in unison .
7 Party Politics : Here he shows the style of jumping which saw the Nick Gaslee-trained horse win steeplechasing 's most famous race last year .
8 The period chosen was a critical one for the British economy , emerging from the difficulties of the post-War period and embarking on a major period of expansion which saw the increase of real wages and affluence in British society .
9 In the nick of time he saw the yellow triangular patch on the shoulder .
10 Or perhaps I would simply be unable to communicate with people who saw the world in the ‘ old ’ way .
11 As Cranston and Athelstan turned into Cheapside they saw the festive spirit had spread .
12 In horror she saw the guerrilla 's hand go to the knife at his belt .
13 Early in March we saw the film 55 Days at Peking .
14 After reading some of the comments from people who saw the game or who listened on the radio , the above seems to be about as true reporting as you 'd expect from the NOTW .
15 In Layton he saw the splendour , and the viability , of the poetic destiny .
16 Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray .
17 " In Cholon you saw the fat Chinese millionaires taking their ease .
18 The collision left the area looking like a ‘ battlefield , ’ according to witnesses who saw the injured taken from the scene .
19 Yet the same forces and influences on society which saw the emergence of the Die-hards as the main force of the radical right after the First World War also saw more extremist reactions from a small but significant group who thought like Banister , and who were prepared to use Burton 's supposed evidence .
20 There was even a report from three sea anglers off Folkestone who saw the eagle heading south-west over the Channel towards France .
21 Now , in the dream influence of the moon , Fenna told Maggie to look down on all the kingdoms of the world , and across China she saw the snaking of the Great Wall .
22 Newspaper reports by reporters who saw the children of Hamelin piped away
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