Example sentences of "that [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at Snaefellsness that I saw the bird I had hoped to find — and which was ‘ new ’ to me — the Brünnich 's guillemot . |
| 2 | And it 's funny because the last car that I saw the fellow 's from I saw the fellow 's who did it . |
| 3 | It was not until I was at a conference at which Jean Darnall was speaking that I saw the need to ask others to pray for me . |
| 4 | It came at once in the form of none other than the mighty Lord 's Prayer ; but it was n't until I got to the line about daily bread that I saw the light — I had n't given her any ! |
| 5 | It was only in 1960 that I saw the flaw in the argument . |
| 6 | It was there that she saw the man lying on the plastic strips of an off-white metal reclining chair beside the pool , which was undoubtedly smaller than it had looked in the photograph . |
| 7 | Lalumière , in an address to the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London on Feb. 28 , 1991 , said that she saw the Council of Europe as an important institutional link between western and eastern Europe , particularly in the field of human rights . |
| 8 | It was clear that she saw the drift of his question but her answer was simple : ‘ Granny seemed to exercise a sort of spell over her sons , her husband too , I think . |
| 9 | see what happened is , I came over and he says , you know I 've told this lady that you saw the man standing beside her and she went she sort of , she described him , apparently he was very tall which |
| 10 | It was only when you looked at their faces that you saw the difference in both age and expression : Harry 's face was round , his eyes merry , while Joe 's features inclined to length and his grey eyes , which at times seemed colourless , had in their depths a touch of melancholy that had deepened with the years . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that Unionists believed in what they were doing or that they saw the government 's actions as justifying their responses . |
| 12 | It was therefore with surprise that they saw the coach draw up bearing the Lassiter coat of arms . |
| 13 | However in nineteen thirty s nineteen forty seven this was n't actually realizing , it was only later on that they saw the incompatibility of the two aims . |
| 14 | ‘ did drive ’ Driving is usually proved by witness statements to the effect that they saw the defendant drive . |
| 15 | It can be proved by witnesses stating that they saw the defendant ‘ drive round the roundabout and wander into the side of another car ’ or ‘ brake rather late and run into the car in front ’ or by the defendant stating that ‘ I misjudged the gap or distance ’ or ‘ I did n't see the other car , motorbike , cycle or pedestrian , etc . ’ |
| 16 | It is also important to note that they saw the taking of law into their own hands as temporary , and pending the recognition by that state of its mistaken attitude towards them and their right to a degree of autonomy . |
| 17 | But both Pound and Lewis were American or Americanized enough to have on the contrary a professional attitude to their respective arts , in the quite precise sense that they saw the continuity of art traditions ensured by the atelier , the master instructing his prentices . |
| 18 | Increasingly , the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime . |
| 19 | This means that they saw the death of Jesus as part of God 's plan . |
| 20 | It was then that they saw the grenade in his hand . |
| 21 | It was notable in one respect , in that it saw the development of Nicholson 's romance with the stunningly attractive former model , Mimi Machu , who appeared in Psych-Out well down the list of credits under the pseudonym of I.J. Jefferson . |
| 22 | The answer is that it saw the way the wind was blowing and instead of desperately tripping its users up as they tried to move to open systems , it embraced them wholeheartedly , giving users the option of either staying on the slow track with an MPE V operating system that over time would converge with Unix , or taking the fast track and jumping across to the HP 9000 . |
| 23 | Every goddam way they had taken Harry 's picture , so that he saw the part of Harry 's head that was intact , and the part that was blasted . |
| 24 | Michael 's problem was that he saw the glamour in Frank 's position : the love of liberty ; the excitement in the free pursuit of truth ; the shaking off of convention and mere conformity ; the feeling that religion was a ‘ stuffy valley ’ out of which he had grown . |
| 25 | After World War One , as we 've been seeing , he was exploring the ego , and his writing about the ego , in particular , group psychology and Future of an Illusion , show quite clearly that he saw the ego as a pro-social fact in the personality . |
| 26 | An old man with only one eye said that he saw the Virgin Mary standing behind Gabriel , dressed in purple and green . |
| 27 | Although Woolf stated that ‘ there is no single cause of riots ’ ( para 9.23 ) it may not be too great a distortion to say that he saw the lack of legitimacy of the prison for its inmates as the key factor in explaining the disorders . |
| 28 | If it is true that he saw the Church in the form of a pyramid , as many people did , with authority flowing down from himself to cardinals , bishops and then to priests , then a Council had no place in any such scheme of things : it only confused the pattern of authority . |
| 29 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 30 | It also suggests that he saw the gift of the Spirit as the supreme characteristic of the kingdom . |