Example sentences of "[noun sg] saw [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cashier saw only a £4.99 price tag when the accused presented a pair of shoes . |
| 2 | Well I do n't think ehm , she and , daughter in law saw exactly eye to eye for a start . |
| 3 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 4 | Then Camp Mill saw yet another change converted to production of millboard , under Moses John Mason . |
| 5 | The CAS Director saw more than 130 practices during the year , either at the RIBA or in their own offices , to offer help and advice . |
| 6 | The final evening saw more than 300 guests attend an industry reception , hosted by LASMO . |
| 7 | Cynthia spoke rather bitterly , and Breeze saw then why they were ‘ all over ’ her . |
| 8 | Find out what to do about taking that band saw away I du n no . |
| 9 | After gluing , the curved members were cut to shape on the band saw then finished with the spokeshave . |
| 10 | Holly saw only the man on the wire . |
| 11 | Rain saw only that he got there first and Harbury was left holding out the wine glass . |
| 12 | This was far from instantaneous , and the Permian period saw both advanced amphibians and early reptiles living side by side . |
| 13 | The rest of the period saw both an increase in the popularity and duration of marriage , with life expectancies for both men and women improving and the divorce rate remaining low . |
| 14 | The third period saw even more frantic goalscoring as Titmuss scored four times and captain Parry twice , Brian Jackson finishing things off just before time with an unassisted goal his third of the game to cause a result which will shock rival teams in the league . |
| 15 | His mind 's eye saw again , with the sharp clarity of a six-year-old , the battered galloping horses with flaring nostrils , the glittering brass posts , twisted like giant barley sugar sticks , the dizzy red and yellow swingboats and the snakes of black flex that coiled across the bruised grass of Thrush Green waiting to ensnare the feet of the bedazzled . |
| 16 | But her mind 's eye saw only one face , one man . |
| 17 | The end of the decade saw more comfortable , functional footwear , reflecting the simpler silhouette of clothes — shoe heels became chunkier and wide-strapped sandals complemented the ubiquitous kaftan imported from the East . |
| 18 | In a sentence such as ( 30 ) , the event saw obviously can not be conceived as existing before the beginning of the crossing : ( 30 ) I saw him cross the street . |
| 19 | But if selection is to take place , it seems reasonable to attempt to do so on the basis of what an organisation saw as important in its own terms at the time , rather than attempting to apply current research criteria to the process . |
| 20 | Thereafter , however , a series of self-inflicted wounds proved costly , the turning point coming when Scott Stewart 's long diagonal to Canada 's left touchline saw only Tony Stanger retreat into his 22 at suitable speed , though John Graf and Chris Tynan then got the better of him , the former 's delightful pick-up releasing the latter for a try . |
| 21 | The priorities used are RESUS , Major A , Major B , Minor A and Minor B. The ENP saw only Minor category patients . |
| 22 | The rest of the season saw more coming and going among players , with the balance tilted against City . |
| 23 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 24 | Of course , with his warp-eye Googol saw far beyond the portion of warpspace shown in the viewer — clear to the Emperor 's aching beacon … |
| 25 | She chose to remain close to friends she had made as a teenager and moved in the pop and art worlds which the prince saw as ‘ frivolous ’ . |
| 26 | The annual competition saw quite a rare occurrence in the sport of fishing . |
| 27 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 28 | He had expected to see Mr Crangle lurking about but to his relief saw instead that it was Mcduff . |
| 29 | The teacher stands back and observes Christopher ( 4.7 ) as he tries to cut right through a block of wood with a tenon saw only half its width . |
| 30 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |