Example sentences of "he saw the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He saw the change in her expression ; antagonism replaced by … by fear ? |
| 3 | This time her laughter was richer , deeper , and when Li Yuan looked up again he saw the delight in her face . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jane Davis , prosecuting , had earlier told the court that Orchard , of Farringdon , London , had been walking his dog when he saw the girl in a playground in the King 's Cross area one evening last July . |
| 6 | He saw the knowledge in her face that he was already chairman — all he needed was the official confirmation . |
| 7 | His marriage was only weeks away and the responsibility he felt for Virginia had grown more onerous when he saw the love in her . |
| 8 | Ken said he saw the play in the way he saw all comedy ‘ like a ball being thrown from one place to another ’ . |
| 9 | Sitting across from her , he saw the triumph in her cunning little eyes , heard in her voice the note of ghoulish relish . |
| 10 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ Minton teased Tindle when he saw the painting in the studio at Hamilton Terrace , ‘ but it 's too late to change the floorboards now . ’ |
| 11 | He saw the psychotic in Curly Top , saw the arrogance of the bully paraded before him . |
| 12 | He saw the excitement in her eyes . |
| 13 | But when she looked back at him he saw the hatred in her eyes and knew he had been right . |
| 14 | He laughed softly , but his eyes glittered as he saw the hatred in hers . |
| 15 | Then he saw the gun in the man 's hand . |
| 16 | His voice was soft and tender for he saw the terror in her eyes . |
| 17 | He saw the car in front of him slow down and slowed with it . |
| 18 | When she paused in her work and turned to look at him , he saw the disappointment in her dark eyes . |
| 19 | He saw the figure in the yellow dress become smaller and smaller . |
| 20 | He saw the mug in Pete 's hand , saw the steam rising . |
| 21 | Yet he saw the danger in making these communities an ideal , as he turned an anthropological eye on Christianity and perceived that such examples seem to proffer no solution to industrial urban and suburban existence — the way most people live . |
| 22 | He saw the body in functionalist terms , but failed to make a distinction between the different functions of the male and female bodies . |
| 23 | He saw the Emperor in person every third day . |
| 24 | He said that he got back by one , but the old baker claims that it was after two when he saw the van in Prospect Terrace . |