Example sentences of "his [noun] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are signs that not all his contemporaries saw the relationship in such simple terms . |
| 2 | Charles Kingsley and his associates saw the question , Cole records , as a moral issue ; and valued Consumers , Co-operation only because it helped to provide retail outlets for producers ' co-operatives . |
| 3 | They were silent on the way back , walking to cool the horses ; if his father saw the state they were in he would be angry . |
| 4 | The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it . |
| 5 | His tenure saw the gallery grow from a provincial treasure house to a world-renowned showcase which challenged the Metropolitan as the country 's most prestigious venue . |
| 6 | The early years of his tenure saw the creation under Ida Ward [ q.v. ] of the first department of the languages and cultures of Africa in a British university , and the successful negotiation of the school 's removal from the City of London to Bloomsbury . |
| 7 | The change in attitude was perhaps most clearly evident in Studies of Boy Life in Our Cities , where Urwick and his collaborators saw the boy neither ‘ as an amusing playmate nor as a vagrant from the ecclesiastical fold , but as the product of a still imperfect educational system and the embryo of the citizen who would decide the destiny of a still inchoate democracy ’ . |
| 8 | Both the coroner and his companion saw the chain fastened to the wall strain at its clasps . |