Example sentences of "he saw [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , what he saw outside the window had too much potency , too much spell-binding sweetness for him to turn his back on it . |
| 2 | Did n't she realise that he saw through every trick she used . |
| 3 | He saw through the toadying , of course he did . |
| 4 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 5 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 6 | Turning , he saw at the end of the cul-de-sac a police-car . |
| 7 | But I know what he saw at the time — three mere candle-flames and three mere shadows . |
| 8 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 9 | She took off her hat and laid it on the table , and he saw with a sense of shock that her hair was white down the line of the parting where the tinting had grown out . |
| 10 | It was as if two palms had been placed against the frail skin and forced it upwards so that he saw with a shock of premonitory recognition the shine of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 11 | This plot gave expression to one of Asimov 's pet hates , ‘ pseudo-science ’ , which he saw as a threat to liberty . |
| 12 | The acting he saw as a boy was at the local cinema , popularly known as the ‘ Cach ’ — the ‘ Shithouse ’ . |
| 13 | What they saw as a problem , he saw as a challenge . |
| 14 | Pilger was disgusted by what he saw as a load of hand-wringing , indecisive amateurs . |
| 15 | Sinatra blew his top and accused both Lawfords of covering up what he saw as a vendetta being waged by Bobby against him . |
| 16 | In the 1720s , having become disillusioned with what he saw as a decline in the moral and spiritual standards of European culture , he formed the project of founding a college in Bermuda for the sons of English settlers and natives , both from Bermuda and the American mainland . |
| 17 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 18 | He became more concerned with specialization within a given environment , a process that he saw as a consequence of the struggle between the different inhabitants of that environment . |
| 19 | In truth , he merely tried to break down social barriers and taboos that surrounded sex in order to remove what he saw as a cause for psychological problems of the time . |
| 20 | At Oxford , Mr Gould joined the Labour Party partly in response to what he saw as an attempt by the City to frustrate the 1964 election results and he has retained a disdain for the get-rich-quick philosophy of the City ever since . |
| 21 | This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him . |
| 22 | To him , the " checks and balances " of Natural Selection were only some of the forces operating in what he saw as the evolution of spirit or mind through matter . |
| 23 | He lacked the apparent knowledge , or confidence in the political verities displayed by what he saw as the heavyweight end of the editorial group , and friction occasionally surfaced . |
| 24 | The poet did not share this sense , he actively disliked it , but he could not escape — not even in Europe — from what he saw as the balefulness of that inheritance . |
| 25 | In Chile , Pablo Neruda was an established poet with a continent-wide reputation before his conversion to Communism under the impact of the Spanish Civil War — particularly the murder of García Lorca , whom he saw as the bearer of the spirit of Republican Spain . |
| 26 | His elitist paternalism underlay laws which instituted strict political and social controls for what he saw as the country 's politically immature population . |
| 27 | His aims included rectifying what he saw as the lack of information on derived publications , and on the time differences between thesis completion and publication . |
| 28 | Lévi-Strauss had already described the fundamental structure of society and language in terms of the exchange of women , which he saw as the basis of all exchange : |
| 29 | While he continued to raise the spectre of a return to German hegemony , his new policy ( voiced for the first time at Bordeaux in September 1949 ) revolved around a Franco-German entente , which he saw as the basis for a European confederation . |
| 30 | Mrs Jule Evans said she was devastated by the affair , she thinks her husband was mesmerised by the athlete , who he saw as the woman of his dreams . |