Example sentences of "he [adv] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who knew him best saw the melancholy that went hand-in-hand with the gaiety he showed the world , and because he lived every emotion intensely , his misery went deep . |
| 2 | ‘ He only saw the shintiyan ! ’ |
| 3 | He struggled with Manchester United , too , until he suddenly saw the light and realised he was going nowhere . |
| 4 | I imagine he just saw the writing on the wall and did n't like their spelling . ’ |
| 5 | It tells you all the mistakes he made , before he finally saw the light . |
| 6 | The label 's ‘ Shostakovich Film Festival ’ ( ) is music from The Gadfly , Five Days and Five Nights , Hamlet — and , more dubiously , the Tahiti Trot ( which Shostakovich simply orchestrated for a wager after hearing a gramophone record of it — there 's no evidence he ever saw the son , better known as Tea for Two , performed on film or intended that his own version of it should be ) , and the First Piano Concerto ( some of the themes of which were recycled for a Soviet cartoon in 1933 ! ) . |
| 7 | He still saw the Alliance " as a temporary co-operation to save democracy and peace " in which " the Labour Party should take the lead " . |
| 8 | Here too he also saw the opening for what he called eristics , a kind of ‘ polemical apologetics ’ in which the Christian understanding of human life as marked by sin and in need of grace could engage in controversial dialogue with other views in order to clarify the difference made by the message of the gospel . |
| 9 | But as Orwell recorded the state of interminable slums , he also saw the landscape in transition . |
| 10 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 11 | He also saw the process from both ends . |
| 12 | On one occasion he nearly saw the man killed : ‘ The rope , sixty-five yards long , on his being drawn up , having a knot in the middle , was arrested by a clint ( crack ) in the rock , to which , with an eaglet sixteen and a half pounds weight , tied to his back , he had no other resource than that of ascending by his hands , the space something overhanging from the nest to the crack … |
| 13 | There by the light of an adjoining street lamp he clearly saw the figure of a station master or porter wearing a flat-topped regulation hat apparently waiting for a train . |
| 14 | I told him I was n't screwing Michael , because that was the most important thing to Murray , the only thing he really saw the point of . |
| 15 | He vaguely saw the monster and then he ran back to the camp where he was camping , but he did n't describe |
| 16 | My informant thinks that what he saw was genuine and was certain that someone was down there , his mate in the other box was equally sure that he too saw the figure . |
| 17 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |