Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first met John Hurt in 1977 , when he was in Devon filming The Shout , I saw at first hand how much he drank . |
| 2 | Thus I saw at first hand the developing excitement within the scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon . |
| 3 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 6 | I had an image of GLF existing through meeting people and talking to them , but the only physical evidence I saw at that time was badges saying GLF . |
| 7 | I took my early ones in black and white , but the later ones I took in colour and er I saw to one side of Orion what looked like the Plough . |
| 8 | There was no competition here , no assumed superiority on the part of another to make her uneasy or defensive , only what she saw as shared experience , delightful in retrospect . |
| 9 | Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief . |
| 10 | She saw with some dismay that his expression had grown sombre . |
| 11 | She saw at first hand the imperialist arrogance of the British in her mother country , aptly illustrated by the signs in the parks which baldly stated ‘ no dogs or Chinese allowed ’ . |
| 12 | And as Fabia gasped at the implication she saw behind that statement Lubor was going on , ‘ It is I who asks you , for myself . |
| 13 | God alone knows what she saw in that brute . |
| 14 | He remarked , " I got rid of what you saw in that hole out there . |
| 15 | The trouble with the slogan , survival of the fittest , is that it gives the impression that evolution is all about creating a kind of super race , you know , like you saw in Nazi propaganda films , you know , blonde erm muscly beasts as it were , who were the th the sort of pinnacles of , of , of creation . |
| 16 | Above all , the need is for the west to encourage economic development trade with export credits and , indeed , joint ventures such as the one that we saw with one firm — Tambrands — in Kiev . |
| 17 | As we saw with long-term insurance funds this inevitably means an emphasis upon company securities . |
| 18 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 19 | In the event of misplacement , as we saw in one patient , immediate removal is possible . |
| 20 | No chance of getting any laundry done unless we meet some tribe of washerwomen waiting for custom outside one of those zinc shacks like we saw in that village in Provence do you remember ? |
| 21 | We saw in this chapter that the rich are more inclined to say that they would break an unjust law than the poor . |
| 22 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 23 | But fair trade as we saw from that sketch , involves a lot more than just fair wages . |
| 24 | That is to say , it assumes the hierarchical erm conception of God 's world and the ethic of obedience , which , as we saw from that prose passage , underlies the conception of the fall as the central sin . |
| 25 | Other early ministers were pushed into politics by the reaction of others to what they saw as religious activity . |
| 26 | Such powers , with a bad record on human rights , were quick to show resentment at what they saw as American meddling in their internal affairs . |
| 27 | The less they saw of each other , Constance had reluctantly accepted over the years , the better friends she and her mother were . |
| 28 | This account was mainly intended to bring together some of the comments made by the members of the Arkleton Trust Advisory Committee on what they saw of rural development in Lewis and Harris . |
| 29 | She 's so flighty and daffy and he 's so glum and boring — you always wondered what they saw in each other . |
| 30 | Also , he saw at one end , pads and claws . |