Example sentences of "[noun prp] saw [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregory saw in the vandalism caused during this episode the fulfilment of a prophecy of Joel : " that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten " . |
| 2 | Margaret Stanhope saw by the watch that never left his wrist that their unromantic interlude would soon be drawing to a close . |
| 3 | One basic theoretical idea is the connection Freud saw between the development of the individual , ontogenesis , and that of the species , phylogenesis . |
| 4 | Peering ahead , Carol saw in the distance , and below , the roofs and chimneys of a town . |
| 5 | The Fifty Years , in the historian 's causal scheme , were the underlying cause of the war , which Thucydides saw as the process of Athenian aggrandizement which struck fear into Sparta . |
| 6 | One day , taking the children into central Birmingham , Anna saw from the bus window the name of the language school she had taught at , in Oxford , on a board outside a small office block . |
| 7 | Both women stressed the idea of service , which Butler saw as an outgrowth of women 's role in the home , while neither envisaged impinging on men 's work . |
| 8 | ‘ Any luck yet with the two men Mike saw on the train ? ’ |
| 9 | It is as if Minton saw in the gun a portent of his own artistic impotence . |
| 10 | For a short time entry was considered into the Communist International which the Left in the ILP saw as a continuation of the Second International of which the ILP had been an affiliate . |
| 11 | Another technical advance Chapman saw on the Continent was the ten-yard semi-circle to ensure that players kept their distance during a penalty kick . |
| 12 | Aung San saw in the Japanese a strength which could overthrow the British Empire . |
| 13 | The spin of Cant and introduction of Grainger saw off the danger posed by Roxwell 's Beard and Mizen and the runs dried up , giving OC 's a 74-run win . |
| 14 | While Mary-Claude saw to the baby and busied herself around the apartment , Habib made the introductions . |
| 15 | He had been closely associated with U Saw before the war and had accompanied the Governor to India . |
| 16 | Then Creggan saw in the distance two of the Men coming , the Keeper and one other . |
| 17 | Alice saw on the desk that there was a white canvas bag in which stacks of notes had already been put . |
| 18 | In a preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , published in this year , he described the landscape of his childhood and speculated about the boy who remained within the adult and successful figure of Mark Twain — the boy who was called " Huck " and whom Eliot saw as a symbol of freedom like the Mississippi itself ; it was impossible for that boy r that river " to have a beginning or end — a career " . |