Example sentences of "saw [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lalage looked into her drink , swirling and looking as if she saw money in the bottom of her glass . |
| 2 | They were helped by provincial publishers who saw money in the subscription system and the growing market of women readers . |
| 3 | I almost dropped the flowers when I saw Lisabeth on the phone in the hallway as I kicked the door shut . |
| 4 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 5 | Freud saw attachment to the mother as becoming , during the early years of childhood , imbued with the emerging sexual impulses ; and the father rapidly becoming seen ( not usually consciously ) as an obstacle to gratification of these impulses . |
| 6 | She even imagined she saw Marc in the audience one night , his face just a pale blur beyond the footlights with all the others , but what would the jet-setting Marc Vila be doing in Yorkshire ? |
| 7 | Others , however , objected to the replacement of the Schools Council by two unelected bodies ; they saw dangers in the minister ‘ surrounding himself by people of one opinion ’ , and in the ‘ centralized patronage ’ which was said to characterize the new arrangements , and they detected the eclipse of the values of curriculum pluralism for which the Schools Council had stood . |
| 8 | Wishart frequently saw Minton in the company of his cousin Anna , the daughter of the poet Roy Campbell . |
| 9 | Osburn saw hope for the future in Englishmen mending their ways . |
| 10 | If he saw Doyle in the pub he 'd slide out of buying him a drink . |
| 11 | Linda saw ankle-boots beside the bed . |
| 12 | Again I saw change as the enemy . |
| 13 | Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs . |
| 14 | He saw Frances in the mirror . |
| 15 | He happened to glance up and saw Beryl on the landing . |
| 16 | She raised Skogen to her face and through it she saw Ghost of the Tree turn a quizzical and penetrating look upon her . |
| 17 | " Henry was carrying his books , and suddenly he saw Sheila in the distance . " |
| 18 | A top critic , Jeffrey Taylor of The Mail on Sunday , saw rehearsals of the ballet , and said it contained erotic love scenes . |
| 19 | While he spoke , he saw reactions in the child 's face . |
| 20 | The post of Director General for regional policy was established in 1968 , and the next year saw proposals by the Commission for the creation of regional aid instruments . |
| 21 | I never saw Moscow in the heyday of the great parades of May and November . |
| 22 | A group of refugees rescued from the war in Bosnia and brought to this country have been inundated with offers of help and accommodation.The six families were rescued by a headmaster , who saw pictures of the war on television and decided that he had to do something to help . |
| 23 | Turning , he saw Chant at the caravan door , which was open . |
| 24 | ‘ I saw Travis over the weekend , ’ Leith plunged . |
| 25 | They walked steadily nearer , and saw blood on the deck , looking blackish in the dim light . |
| 26 | In the tent that night we eat smoked trout and Odd-Knut tells us that the previous year there was a fight on his team and after it was over and the dogs were moving again he saw blood on the snow . |
| 27 | Christina saw Edward about the hotel for the next few days . |
| 28 | Eden , who in pre-war days had fought a losing battle in British politics against the appeasement of the dictators , saw Nasser as the reincarnation of Mussolini , if not of Hitler ; and in consequence , tried to use a sledge-hammer to crack a nut . |
| 29 | As the bus pulled away , he saw Vasco through the window . |
| 30 | When she reached the top of the stairs and turned to descend she saw Simon on the hall phone and hesitated , wondering . |