Example sentences of "he saw [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , he saw at one end , pads and claws . |
| 2 | He saw with bitter lucidity that he would marry Rose Brady now . |
| 3 | Mr. Bailey 's own views are not stated , but as his appointment had included that of vaccinator , his reaction to this command was probably provoked by what he saw as lay interference in a professional matter . |
| 4 | It was equally predictable that these contacts were liveliest with the West Frankish church ; and that it was Charles the Bald who responded most strongly , both positively , to papal appeals for help , and also aggressively , to what he saw as papal interference in the West Frankish church 's political concordat with his own regime . |
| 5 | The governor expressed his disillusionment in letters to Penn and others : ‘ the hosts of mosquitoes are worse than armed men , yet the men without arms [ are ] worse than they ’ ; and attacked what he saw as Quaker hypocrisy : ‘ each praying with his neighbour on First Days , and then preying on him the other six ’ . |
| 6 | Through their objectivity , he argued , search consultants were able to provide what he saw as conceptual help in defining a business need and translating it into the sort of people who could fulfil it ; actually searching for people was perhaps less important . |
| 7 | His autobiography makes it clear that Terence O'Neill had no sympathy with what he saw as parochial unionism . |
| 8 | The rest he saw as just bureaucracy . |
| 9 | With a substantial widening of the franchise , Peres hoped to head off what he saw as PLO-inspired recalcitrance and allow the accommodationist vote to prevail . |
| 10 | Then , as he frequently did , he took a moral line , based on what he saw as natural law , and said he would not blame , and might even assist , the victim 's relatives in such a case , should they wish to exact retribution and then hide . |
| 11 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 12 | In the fifth century A.D. Theodoretus felt the difficulty when , in his admirable analysis , he saw in this Psalm a prophecy of the burning of the Temple by Titus ( P.G . |