Example sentences of "saw the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year saw the fifth staging of the Quadriathlon World Championships with competitors faced with a 5K swim , 20K kayak leg , 100K cycle ride and 21K ( half-marathon distance ) run . |
| 2 | The ‘ Let ’ rule has stood since 1880 without too much fuss and I think I might get annoyed if I saw the fifth set in a Wimbledon final decided by a serve which simply hit the net and ‘ died ’ on the receiver 's side . |
| 3 | The war brought , however , a number of naval victories and 1740 saw the first performance of Rule Britannia , which soon acquired the status of a second national anthem . |
| 4 | The 8th July , coinciding with the start of BR 's summer timetable , saw the first day of four train operation . |
| 5 | 1982 saw the first publication of the autumn statement , which can be taken to refer to both the publication and the Chancellor 's oral statement ( see Economic Progress Report 153 , HM Treasury , January 1983 ) . |
| 6 | The 30 September also saw the first session of a specially created presidential Commission for Restitution . |
| 7 | Cargill Agriculture 's Cambridgeshire-based Philip Simpson saw the first sample of Torrent a week ago . |
| 8 | 4 May also saw the first sortie by 69 Squadron 's latest addition — a photo-reconnaissance Hurricane . |
| 9 | Yesterday saw the first meeting of North Essex Health Authority , which replaces the consortium made up of the old north east , mid and west Essex district health authorities . |
| 10 | He saw the first group of storm-troopers in the forest to his left . |
| 11 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 12 | Brighton also saw the first appearance of the latest new range from Lyles called Heather Mist . |
| 13 | Last summer nearly saw the second ascent of Ken 's Fisherman 's Tale by a visiting climber . |
| 14 | Mr Clay said he saw the second article on the plane flying home . |
| 15 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 16 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 17 | To take one last example , when we read in Canto 101 ( and many other places ) about ‘ Mont Ségur ’ , the gloss we need is in the Michelin Guide to the pyrenees , where we learn that the Château of Mont Ségur saw the last stand of the Cathars or Albigensians , another heretical movement of the Middle Ages which is mysteriously connected with the quest of the grail . |
| 18 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |