Example sentences of "[adv] saw [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 2 | Well on that join I suddenly saw water rushing down the wall ! |
| 3 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 4 | Surrealists not only saw art as being composed of signifying elements drawn from the real , but also understood reality to be composed of signifying elements . |
| 5 | In the 1910s and 1920s , some newspaper proprietors seemed willing to continue to subsidize their newspapers on political grounds , but the mounting losses incurred in this process — Pearson spent £¾m keeping the Westminster Gazette going , the TUC had spent £½m on the Daily Herald between 1921 and 1928 but only saw profit once in the early years — increased the reluctance of the politically committed to get involved . |
| 6 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 7 | In applying that how that they did n't implement land reform because it was n't viable but if erm another way of looking at it is that how the Communist Party no longer saw land reform as the best way , means of achieving greater |
| 8 | No I was , I just saw Food and Drink |
| 9 | ‘ It was an extremely popular programme and we always saw eye to eye about it . |
| 10 | Jack always saw Piggy as a burden and if it had not been for Piggy 's spectacles Piggy would have been even more hated by Jack . |
| 11 | He caused more suffering among his allow drivers than any other man I ever saw race and the only man who could possibly come closer to him as a road-hog , even when his own position was hopeless , was Riccardo Patrese , a far more refined driver than Clay in every other respect . |
| 12 | Much of the extensive heath country of Lincolnshire was successfully enclosed and converted into good arable land , but between Sleaford and Lincoln , Arthur Young saw , in the 1790s , ‘ hundreds of acres in the veriest state of waste I ever saw land , whether appropriated or unappropriated , in this kingdom . |
| 13 | She let him tell Gentle that if he ever saw hide or hair of Gentle in the building again he 'd have him arrested as an accomplice to attempted murder . |
| 14 | ‘ If I ever saw pepper coming out of a pepper pot I would find that funny . |
| 15 | One guest once saw Grandad move out of his lair by a lone rowan . |
| 16 | It later saw service in the Napoleonic wars and as an anti-aircraft point in this century . |
| 17 | This period also saw expansion of motor-car ownership which led to both the provision of more and better roads and other traffic-related expenditure . |
| 18 | It also saw service as a liaison aircraft and an aerobatic display and sporting type . |
| 19 | Weber also saw ownership of wealth as an important criterion for distinguishing classes . |
| 20 | Blackett also saw action in 1914 off Port Stanley in the Falklands Islands . |
| 21 | The Conservatives also saw tax policy as a means of establishing control over public sector borrowing , and of introducing tax reform to assist the supply-side of the economy . |
| 22 | But the Buxton clan also saw emancipation as a family triumph . |
| 23 | In small group discussions , happily married men with children clearly saw fidelity as part of their lives ; although not immune to other women 's charms , they were not prepared to jeopardize what they had for the sake of a night of passion . |
| 24 | The women of the family often saw advantage in fomenting such disputes . |
| 25 | As he walked with his brothers , Angel felt that , however lucky they were to have a university education , neither of them really saw life as it was lived . |
| 26 | Trade unionists increasingly saw underconsumption as the cause of stagnant trade , for , as the manifesto of the woollen textile workers stated on the eve of the 1925 textile lock-out : ‘ There is no greater fallacy today than to think we could get back to prosperity by reducing wages . ’ |
| 27 | A small firm on the brink of disaster two years ago cocking a snook at the recession by doubling its workforce and turning out garden tractors in the face of high demand … today saw number 5,000 roll off the line . |
| 28 | Keegan called for cool heads in tonight 's home clash with Cesena after the explosive finale to the Ascoli match three weeks ago saw striker David Kelly sent off . |
| 29 | The older boys immediately saw Piggy for what he looked like . |
| 30 | He forged into a 6-5 lead in the fourth set but then saw King draw two shots close to the jack on the eighth end for a match lie . |