Example sentences of "what [pron] saw [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time .
2 I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show .
3 Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’
4 She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way .
5 I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning .
6 Stooping , what I saw of the valley were glimpses of a richly farmed landscape and a dark brown river , all imbued with a hazy crepuscular Tuscan light .
7 From what I saw of the match he played well .
8 But like what I saw of the women , they looked alright to me .
9 ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’
10 I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months .
11 ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’
12 What I saw from the air was a new runway , freshly mown and very inviting .
13 She gave him her best smile , liking what she saw under the porch lantern .
14 What she saw under the lights was a boat , a big one in too small a space .
15 As patron of the Macintyre organisation the Duchess of York has worked closely with the mentally disabled for some years , but even she was surprised ; delighted with what she saw on the opening night .
16 Kahlo 's adoption of Tehuana dress , while being an attractive disguise of what she saw as a less than perfect body , asserted both a feminist and an anti-colonialist position .
17 She also felt that age 6 was too early to make what she saw as a drastic decision — once out of mainstream education she felt he would be unlikely to get back .
18 During the case of the nine children who were taken into care in February 1991 , one long-standing member of the Panel resigned because of what she saw as the deterioration in the Children 's Panel Hearing system in Orkney since the suspension of Mrs Kemp .
19 I am so jealous and protective of her , ’ but , close as she was to Louise , she could n't bring herself to admit what she saw as the black depths of her failure with her daughter .
20 It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position .
21 A physiotherapist talked , for instance , of what she saw as the consequences of a young person complying or not with recommended regimes :
22 Another outlined what she saw as the consequences :
23 And it is here , in the ‘ thinking ’ , we are told , that the programme falls down due to the ‘ lack of connection between reality and what you saw on the screen ( Charles Catchpole , News of the World , 26 June 1988 ) .
24 Despite what you saw at the club .
25 ‘ I need to reflect upon what we saw at the Tower . ’
26 What we saw as an interesting and unusual opportunity , they saw as a second-best .
27 In our detailed responses to the Secretary of State of the 30th October 1991 and the 10th June 1992 we highlighted what we saw as the threat to strategic planning policies , embodied in the existing county structure plans , as a result of the creation of 23–25 relatively small unitary authorities .
28 You 'll , you 'll have noticed that er in reading that that it 's , it 's the part er on er Zeffirelli 's erm Jesus of Nazareth that erm that is actually what we saw on the film is actually what 's written here .
29 Now having said all this you know let's not identify with these too much like the that 's me you know okay , it gives you an incl an idea of your in of your stance where what sort of attitude philosophy and behaviours you prefer to have within a group , okay and if you match those back to what we saw in the group erm then it 's not surprising that the group got on so well together and you know we did n't have too much conflict with the amount of team workers involved because nobody in there wanted to upset anybody else in the team .
30 What they saw at the end fundamentally shocked his system .
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