Example sentences of "he saw [that] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw that a tall young man , dressed in the uniform of a lower-class masher — check trousers , brown bowler , shiny brown boots , and huge moustache — had a girl pinned against the wall of one of the office buildings , and was attempting to kiss her — or worse . |
| 2 | When he found his friends , he saw that a lean white man had joined them . |
| 3 | He was far too honourable to approach Asquith with a deal which could only mean the compromise of both their principles for a period of artificial power , not unlike the last years of the Coalition ; and he saw that an anti-socialist alliance could only lead , in the end , to a major Labour victory . |
| 4 | But when all qualifications have been entered , Benjamin 's position is important for three main reasons : he took the potential of new media seriously ( as Adorno did not ) ; he recognized a new kind of ‘ autonomy ’ for cultural activity , defined in terms of its status as a practice and an intervention ; and he saw that the new modes of production and reproduction would generate new kinds of perception . |
| 5 | When he stepped up onto his porch , he saw that the front door was ajar . |
| 6 | When Chaos came he fought as best he could but he saw that the pitiful weapons of the Elves and the peaceful sorceries of the Everqueen could not stand against the might of the dark . |
| 7 | and he saw that the first flame |
| 8 | Looking round , he saw that the young accomplice had retrieved the knife and was pointing it at him like a gun , stammering : ‘ You 'd better let him go , d' you hear ? ’ |
| 9 | He saw that the white apparition was a dead swan . |
| 10 | When Piper turned , he saw that the big , red , down-turned mouth had gone , the spots of colour on the cheeks had gone , the arched eyebrows had gone . |
| 11 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 12 | He saw that the intellectual side of him could not be wrong , somehow he must baptize it . |
| 13 | He saw that the little waterfall in the Harrisons ' rockery had run dry . |