Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] saw the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then returned to work for JS in 1992 at Watchmoor Park , on the deli counter , having been a customer throughout the decades which saw the development of supermarkets into the modern stores of today . |
| 2 | Over the years she saw the section expand from handling only one company to its present total of 29 , involving 50 members of staff . |
| 3 | Rachaela walked into the corridor and along to the landing , and descending the stairs she saw the lamps were lit in the drawing room as on that first night years before . |
| 4 | There all had seemed worthwhile , for going up and down the stairs I saw the familiar ‘ Barts ’ nurses holding precious little bundles in their arms . |
| 5 | I thought , when I went and opened the windows I saw the other one but I did n't see the |
| 6 | The haze of his first cigarette clouded the room briefly and in the streak of light from the curtains he saw the heaped clothes and the mark on the hotel carpet where he 'd knocked over the glass of water . |
| 7 | The 1850 Act was regarded with horror by the shipowners who saw the observance of petty regulations added to the loss of their rights to carry freight in British bottoms . |
| 8 | Profitable exports were handled through the port of Berwick-upon-Tweed until , in the middle of the fifteenth century , the kings themselves saw the advantages of taking over pastures for their own flocks , storing the wool at Selkirk and then shipping it out via Leith . |
| 9 | Through the slats of the shutters we saw the high , green sides of a ravine and a solitary tree fern growing luxuriantly , a living fossil from the coal forests of the Carboniferous . |