Example sentences of "they saw [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact some of them swore that they saw a phantom train roaring into or out of Box Hill Tunnel ; of course the sceptics laughed their heads off at such a far-fetched tale but the more psychic were inclined to accept the men 's story . |
| 2 | In that dream they saw a new life in a humane , liberal , decent West , run by people like Douglas Hurd . |
| 3 | They saw a black Morris Cowley pull up in front of Hogan 's and knew it was Dr Johnson . |
| 4 | Moreover , they saw a strong case for the development of amphibious forces , supported by the carrier groups , to seize points of entry for the fly-in of air-transported forces . |
| 5 | Suddenly , [ as an account of their voyage puts it ] they saw a narrow passage , like the mouth of a river , ahead of them in the surf , and they managed to steer into it . |
| 6 | At the same time they saw a causal link between the predicament of the peasants and their own frustrations ; the political , social , and cultural constrictions which impinged directly upon them seemed to be the product of a society based upon oppression of the masses . |
| 7 | They saw a long pool , a puddle of water shrunken to the rotting lily roots on its muddy floor . |
| 8 | Just before the clock struck five the next morning , Gabriel and Coggan were walking to the hayfields past their mistress 's house , when they saw a surprising sight . |
| 9 | Well these had to be bent you see and they they saw a wee bit through them . |
| 10 | They saw a European Assembly as a way to mobilise public opinion behind European co-operation in general , and did not wish to give the new body any sovereign authority over governments . |
| 11 | As they rounded the hump and came out on the broad , gentler seaward slope they saw a uniformed policeman standing on the cliff edge , and when they joined him he pointed to the rocky shore below . |
| 12 | When they came near the princess 's tower they saw a great number of people , all walking in the meadows , all searching for the princess 's lost keys . |
| 13 | Next they came to a clearing in the forest where they saw a great flock of doves . |
| 14 | They saw a great deal of each other , but , because Diana was so much younger and usually just one of a party , no one who saw them together ever suspected she was a girlfriend . |
| 15 | Seafarers who landed there thought they saw a great chain of mountains and heard the roaring of lions from them . |
| 16 | They had n't gone far when at the side of the road they saw a small boy . |
| 17 | They saw a large part of their task as negotiating with and between carers and handicapped people — often painstakingly and over long periods — in order to gain a commitment to and an acceptance of a change in lifestyle . |
| 18 | They saw a frustrated Stalin , foiled in his attempts to extend Russian power into northern , western , and southern Europe by the alliance of the European democracies and the United States . |
| 19 | Norway is a particularly interesting example where they saw a rocketing rate of smoking amongst adolescents they introduced a smoking ban , er an an advertising ban , and in fact , it 's reversed and they , they 're youngsters are not smoking at the same rate as as they were . |
| 20 | As they walked along one of the stone-flagged paths and came to the gate in the flint wall they saw a neat pile of mowings waiting , apparently , to be composted . |
| 21 | As soon as they saw a lonely person , they had to drag him off to the woods Jesus Christ ! |
| 22 | They took her to the Palais des Papes in Avignon where , on a warm evening , they saw a floodlit trench production of Macbeth , the Théâtre Nationale Populaire , with Jean Vilar , drawn and romantic , more damned troubadour than Scots butcher , and Maria Casares , whitely elegant and frenzied , washing blood from her hands whilst angelic trumpets shrilled from high battlements . |
| 23 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |
| 24 | A pig and a chicken were walking together and they saw a huge sign advertising scrambled eggs and bacon . |
| 25 | They saw a potential danger in the ILP releasing itself from responsibility for the failings of the late Labour Government . |
| 26 | Beneath the door they saw a thin rind of light . |
| 27 | They saw a few hares , two of which the tracker managed to shoot for the pot , and there were buzzards overhead sometimes , but that was all . |
| 28 | They saw a few workmen on bicycles , and perhaps four cars ; and that was all . |
| 29 | Against the wall they saw a fine portrait of the young Dorian Gray , in all his wonderful youth and beauty . |
| 30 | They saw a red Ace of Spades as a normal Ace of Diamonds or a normal Ace of Spades . |