Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er I saw them on a rack and they were |
| 2 | and I 'd had a and er they , I never saw them on the floor . |
| 3 | They were great champions and everyone who saw them on the ice thought they were lovers . |
| 4 | You saw them on the television — they never gave up hope , campaigning and running lonely vigils in the long nights . |
| 5 | We all buy goods on impulse sometimes — simply because we saw them on the shelf of the shop . |
| 6 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 7 | He saw them to the door but when they rode past a minute later , it was already shut . |
| 8 | It was Agnes who saw them to the door , and then into their car . |
| 9 | Hemmings nodded and Elaine pulled herself from her chair and saw them to the door . |
| 10 | They stood to leave and as an afterthought Cobalt got up , too , and saw them to the door . |
| 11 | Jenny saw them to the door , kissed Rachel . |
| 12 | Perhaps he saw them as a threat . |
| 13 | In Themis she stressed the need for group rather than individual values in conducting life and saw them as the foundation of religion . |
| 14 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 15 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 16 | Dublin regarded the revelations with dismay , but also saw them as an opportunity to renew and step up its criticisms of the regiment . |
| 17 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 18 | only had this sprung on me er today er when I went in to the Hall and and and saw them with a notice and a table collecting signatures . |
| 19 | Tabitha saw them through the viewport : silhouettes of black on purple , scrambling up into the hangar and clinging , chittering , to the knobbly brown walls . |
| 20 | He came to the station and saw them into the carriage . |
| 21 | I saw them from the penthouse bar |
| 22 | I saw them from the window and called to them that I would tell the police who they were . |
| 23 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
| 24 | Doubtless they describe the hard life of the villager and the poverty of his surroundings as Crabbe saw them : but he was not a peasant , as Clare was , and he saw them from the outside as harsh , ugly and wretched . |
| 25 | There are tigers there , and there 's leopards and things called sloth bears , a sort of bear , but they 're actually quite rare so er we did n't see any of those , apart from the rhinos , we went very very quietly crawled under the undergrowth and we saw them in a water hole and they were just bathing there . |
| 26 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 27 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 28 | She saw them in the sky , just a small group of them , but they brought death , she knew that , as they flew steadily on through the calm of the summer morning . |
| 29 | I saw them in the field with the fallen stones . |
| 30 | You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point . |