Example sentences of "they saw the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And through the window of the spaceship they saw the Moon before them , cold , white and beautiful ; and under the Moon , there was the Moon colony ! |
| 2 | More and more they saw the folly of setting out with a medium in search of a message … |
| 3 | They saw the God of Israel ( 9–11 ) : having a meal with someone is the essence of fellowship in the Near East . |
| 4 | Thus they were forced to remain in hiding and at half past two they saw the glow of the fires that Mayne had lit at Tamit lighting up the horizon . |
| 5 | They saw the mixture of deterrence and retribution that characterised neoclassical criminology as too soft — favouring criminals ' rights at the expense of the protection of society . |
| 6 | And I think what that emphasises in the constitution is that the founding fathers , who devised the constitution , saw the congress as the central organ of American government and they saw the presidency as an appendage . |
| 7 | It sounded well enough until they saw the size of the rations . |
| 8 | As wage earners themselves , they saw the morality of equal pay . |
| 9 | As the prophetic people flocked around Jesus , and as they saw the transformation in the lives of his disciples and heard the words of life and hope , they longed for a rebellion against the Roman occupation of Judea or a reformation of the Pharisaical law . |
| 10 | In particular , they saw the function of the British fascists as providing stewards for Conservative party meetings to help maintain free speech and law and order . |
| 11 | They saw the bill as part of the renewed offensive against the poor , following in the wake of the Contagious Diseases Acts . |
| 12 | If they saw the state of you , you 're going to get pay day . |
| 13 | If the tide was low the two of them watched the gleams on the foreshore , at half tide they heard the water chuckling , waiting to lift the boats , at flood tide they saw the river as a powerful god , bearded with the white foam of detergents , calling home the twenty-seven lost rivers of London , sighing as the night declined . |
| 14 | This time they saw the church in all its Moorish exuberance . |
| 15 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 16 | They saw the temple of the sun and the temple of the moon , driving out of the huge city past a tangle of ravines and yellow clifftops hung with shacks of corrugated iron and this and that . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
| 18 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 19 | Increasingly , the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime . |
| 20 | They believed , you see , that the tortoise was an animal of great purity — in its hard-soft form they saw the meeting of Yin and Yang , of Heaven and Earth . |
| 21 | However , unlike the pupils at school A they saw the organization of the school as having little influence on their educational opportunities , rather they saw the attitudes of the teachers as being paramount , concluding that the prevailing attitudes held by certain teachers would undermine the organization of any school . |
| 22 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 23 | Because they saw the Pope as the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation and the Roman Catholics as apostates , they fiercely attacked all Church of England rites and ceremonies which followed those of Rome , including its set prayers , its administration of the Sacraments , the use of altars instead of tables , its celebrations of saints ' days , its music and its vestments . |
| 24 | They saw the cartel as a necessary evil to make the market less volatile and to restrain producers themselves from trying to corner the market in coffee futures . |
| 25 | It is also important to note that they saw the taking of law into their own hands as temporary , and pending the recognition by that state of its mistaken attitude towards them and their right to a degree of autonomy . |
| 26 | It was only when they saw the picture on the cover of a magazine — on their 38th wedding anniversary — that they realised their kiss had been captured forever . |
| 27 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 28 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 29 | Together they watched the setting up of the town 's first fish and chip shop , they saw the decline of Mr Healy in the hotel and stood side by side on the day that he was taken to the sanatorium . |
| 30 | There were more trucks around it , and also several humans that started to run when they saw the shadow of the Ship . |