Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] saw [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While on holiday in Portugal I saw a conifer that looked so magnificent I just had to photograph it . |
| 2 | Yes , it 's a funny old thing , actually I must tell you I feel an awful lot better since I 've passed my I suppose , last Friday I saw a Solicitor and the divorce is now actually sat up on it 's merry way rejoicing , and |
| 3 | Here they were presented with a new interpretation of world events from the Kremlin which saw the world as divided into ‘ two camps ’ and called on Communists everywhere to resist US ‘ imperialism ’ . |
| 4 | Keynes himself saw the liquidity trap as merely a special case : the case where the economy is in deep recession . |
| 5 | Barnett himself saw the solution to the problem in achieving an amicable peace between rich and poor by finding cultural means of bringing together the " two nations " . |
| 6 | Last December I saw a plant called a Red Spotted Croton . |
| 7 | At the beginning of February we saw the transfer of our bag production to Exeter . |
| 8 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 9 | He succeeded in getting up everyone 's nose , particularly the flared nostrils of Kenneth Williams who saw a foreigner — in the Foreign Legion — usurping his position as the mentor of the team . |
| 10 | Jackson herself saw the danger in 1976 : ‘ Unless you can accept a child 's colour , you will always be rejecting a very important part of him ’ ( p. 4 ) . |
| 11 | Early in March we saw the film 55 Days at Peking . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Walking on up to Glencoe I saw a canary at a window with an ‘ I Love Ballachulish ’ sticker on the base of its cage . |
| 14 | A Britain which saw a resurgence of enterprise , sharing greater wealth more widely than ever before . |
| 15 | Aquinas himself saw no finality in the solutions offered by either Aristotle or Ptolemy to the problems of planetary motion . |
| 16 | On his way home through Weatherbury he saw the coach from Bath . |
| 17 | K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out . |
| 18 | There was even a report from three sea anglers off Folkestone who saw the eagle heading south-west over the Channel towards France . |
| 19 | In Layton he saw the splendour , and the viability , of the poetic destiny . |
| 20 | Of Feargal she saw no sign . |
| 21 | Two days later in the Bay of Biscay we saw a whale blowing a jet of spray high in the air , and I thought of Moby Dick . |
| 22 | ‘ Against Turkey we saw a player of David Platt 's stature putting on a wonderful performance , where he was prepared to work so hard . |
| 23 | As he told Wolf he saw the mission 's task ‘ as one of formulating a constructive program of aid to help prevent in Southeast Asia a repetition of the circumstances leading to the fall of China ’ . |
| 24 | It is no coincidence that 1974 , the year in England and Wales which saw the end of the decline the proportionate use of imprisonment , and the beginning of a major economic crisis during which the numbers of male unemployed more than doubled by 1976 and increased by a factor of 5 by 1984 , also marked the beginning of the end of the welfarist consensus . |
| 25 | ‘ I should n't tell Mr Evans you saw the calf born , ’ Carrie said . |
| 26 | But they had a Mini before the Metro and er the day they bought the Mini they saw an advert in the paper saying that if you buy a Mini in the next few days |
| 27 | The first time he drove into Adam 's Creek he saw a picture of Creed in a store window and he stabbed the brake . |