Example sentences of "we saw the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that war we saw the rise of communism and fascism and of Hitler . |
| 2 | Later we saw the Duke of Edinburgh 's yawl , Bloodhound . |
| 3 | " We saw the king at once , 'said Agger later . |
| 4 | ‘ We could n't believe it when we saw the size of the hole it had fallen down , it must have slipped backwards and was just small enough to slip in . ’ |
| 5 | That 's why we were so surprised when we saw the income from the gate . |
| 6 | erm We saw the beginning of the factory , industrialization , big manufacturers where lots of people worked and where cloth could be churned out at a very fast rate , and therefore , cloth was cheaper . |
| 7 | We saw the anniversary of the Rainhill trials , with the large range of locomotives exhibited there , and runs by the classic locomotives that have survived into preservation , many of them on the Marches line . |
| 8 | What the big long one it was , we saw the price of it . |
| 9 | When we saw the outline of a ship in the distance , we rowed towards it . |
| 10 | We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out . |
| 11 | At the beginning of February we saw the transfer of our bag production to Exeter . |
| 12 | Near the entrance of the open-plan dining area was a large bird-table , and we saw the reason for that when meal-time came . |
| 13 | Here we saw the professionalism of Bennett when he made a study of the factors that impinged upon the operational height aspect . |
| 14 | ‘ We saw the potential for growth and are aiming to become the UK 's chief financial printer managed from Scotland . ’ |
| 15 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 16 | Below us we saw the body of a man . |
| 17 | ‘ We saw the smoke from your chimney through the trees . ’ |