Example sentences of "saw [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end the NL did become demonstrably pro-Conservative and saw off the IML challenge , but divisions like this played their part in ensuring that the British Navy League was never as large or influential as its German counterpart . |
| 2 | Hereford saw off the Doncaster attack but missed good chances to get a few more goals … 2-1 top marks to Greg Downs and his men |
| 3 | The grid screen is now shown , 45 squares wide and 38 squares high , as we saw for the intarsia chart printing . |
| 4 | How did one saw through a brake cable anyway ? |
| 5 | They leaned over the sleeping figure and saw through the polythene tent the hand on the counterpane closed in a tight fist . |
| 6 | He would saw through the brake cable . |
| 7 | Increased immigration militated against the absorption of new arrivals in existing Shetlander networks ; while at the same time it was accompanied by the creation of new networks composed of incomers -incomers found shared interests in what they saw as a frontier zone . |
| 8 | The two elements that mattered were the music and the drama ( meaning the stage action , which Wagner , unlike Schopenhauer , now saw as a thing independent of words ) . |
| 9 | He lacked the apparent knowledge , or confidence in the political verities displayed by what he saw as the heavyweight end of the editorial group , and friction occasionally surfaced . |
| 10 | She gave him her best smile , liking what she saw under the porch lantern . |
| 11 | Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see . |
| 12 | The other clarification followed swiftly from a photograph of Tace he saw in a newspaper review . |
| 13 | Other things , John would see and ask , ‘ Can I afford to buy that ? ’ — as when he fell in love with two leather suitcases he saw in a Munich shop window . |
| 14 | The chap you saw in the druid outfit got them going again and he 's still the king-pin . ’ |
| 15 | ( But , as we saw in the Faulhaber example , not all average cost prices are sustainable in general . ) |
| 16 | Here there are often too many people ( not too\few ) but safety does not lie in numbers , as we saw in the Champs-Elysées story . |
| 17 | I remembered once , in the middle of summer two years ago , when I was coming down the path in the late dusk after a day 's walking in the hills beyond the town , I saw in the gathering night strange lights , shifting in the air over and far beyond the island . |
| 18 | He fused the dreams of Western socialists with the egalitarian and democratic potential he saw in the peasant commune to create a unique brand of Russian socialism . |
| 19 | we saw in the picnic scene , remember ? ) |
| 20 | He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him . |
| 21 | In fact , I saw from the station clock that I had timed my arrival just about perfectly . |
| 22 | Some of the bogs I saw from the train window had been ‘ harvested ’ , and rows of beehive-shaped ‘ peat cocks ’ stood like haycocks , awaiting collection . |
| 23 | One day , taking the children into central Birmingham , Anna saw from the bus window the name of the language school she had taught at , in Oxford , on a board outside a small office block . |
| 24 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 25 | I saw on a church bill-board recently the familiar statement , ‘ Wise men still seek Christ ’ . |
| 26 | As patron of the Macintyre organisation the Duchess of York has worked closely with the mentally disabled for some years , but even she was surprised ; delighted with what she saw on the opening night . |
| 27 | Banknote paper was then prepared with a colouring agent made from cobalt , silex , salt and potash : if you set light to a bundle of money , the cinder would take on the extraordinary tint that Musgrave saw on the Caen dockside . |
| 28 | Black & Decker has introduced the Cut Saw on the d-i-y market . |
| 29 | Throckmorton and several other conservative country gentlemen used to meet in the Queen 's Head Tavern in Fleet Street to discuss parliamentary affairs , and they probably formed the nearest thing the Reformation Parliament saw to an opposition group . |
| 30 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |