Example sentences of "saw [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Linda saw ankle-boots beside the bed . |
| 3 | A top critic , Jeffrey Taylor of The Mail on Sunday , saw rehearsals of the ballet , and said it contained erotic love scenes . |
| 4 | While he spoke , he saw reactions in the child 's face . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He saw mountains on the Moon ( very anti-Aristotle this ) , then satellites orbiting Jupiter , which he mapped with such accuracy that his orbital times are hardly different from those calculated today . |
| 8 | 1986 saw visits from the King and Queen of Sweden and President P.W . |
| 9 | It is unfortunate that the verse saga ascribed to Llywarch Hen , which celebrates Cynddylan 's defence of the River Tern in Shropshire on the Powys border and laments the destruction of his residence at Pengwern , situated perhaps on the Wrekin or at nearby Wrockwardine , is essentially unhistorical , but the statement , ‘ I saw armies on the ground of the field of Cogwy [ Maes Cogwy ] and the battle full of affliction : Cynddylan was an ally ’ , may possess value as an independent fragment . |
| 10 | However , the CITUB announced that it would continue its strike until it saw guarantees of the character of the new government . |
| 11 | They are but not as I saw things at the time — I did n't think I would marry . |
| 12 | " He asked me to met him several times a year , I tried to advise him , to tell him how I saw things in the world . " |
| 13 | Once or twice , she thought she saw things in the periphery of her vision that could n't be there . |
| 14 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 15 | We saw bits of the programme here . |
| 16 | A swell lifted him and he saw men in the cockpit . |
| 17 | In January 1916 , six months before he met O'Keeffe , 3 Stieglitz saw examples of the charcoal drawings she had made the previous autumn and exclaimed : ‘ Why they 're genuinely fine things — You say a woman did these — She 's an unusual woman — She 's broad-minded , she 's bigger than most women , but she 's got the sensitive emotion — I 'd know she was a woman — Look at that line . ’ |
| 18 | Individuals are easily marked-you can write on the shell with a pencil , paint numbers on it or saw grooves into the aperture . |
| 19 | Policeman says : He tried to dip his headlights for an oncoming car then saw horses in the road and just could n't stop in time so ploughed into them . |
| 20 | ‘ We heard the radio and saw photographs of the damage in the papers , ’ Damiani said . |
| 21 | When I pressed the button there was the ripping noise that was characteristic of the Hurricane 's eight guns and I saw strikes on the fuselage of the Stuka . |
| 22 | Even the ever-ebullient Sir Peter Parker saw parts of the commuter system ‘ rattling into decline ’ , and nobody was surprised when in 1979 the government referred the services to the Monopolies & Mergers Commission . |