Example sentences of "saw [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Durkheim saw signs of hope . |
| 2 | It was a chilly evening when I left London via Paddington for Bedford , and for the first time I saw signs of panic . |
| 3 | Develop will be erm , shown , but it is not about running it 's about medieval Shrewsbury , many towns have these , the Yorvik one 's been spectacularly successful , and has been copied in places like Canterbury for those that saw Songs of Praise last night , with even , erm , it is evident that this will be a new visitor attraction for the town with a generation of jobs , permanent jobs in , in that er , facility , it will improve the erm , appearance of main entrance into the town centre , very important in terms of attracting other people in the future , unfortunately the Borough Council have n't quite got enough money , or they tell us . |
| 4 | On the shelves of a tall dresser , she saw tins of coffee and chocolate biscuits and a collection of Twinings teas ranging from Darjeeling , through English Breakfast to Lapsang and Rose Pouchong . |
| 5 | Craig looked into his mother 's white face and saw lines of pain etched around her mouth . |
| 6 | Forcing his way through a gap in a hedge , he caught his hand on a thorn and saw beads of blood ooze from a long scratch . |
| 7 | She saw sacks of meal and gleaming dates , boxes of over-ripe figs with the seeds oozing out , and she stepped carefully over a stream of something unthinkable that ran down the centre of the street . |
| 8 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 9 | The moment came , and in walked Robin and Henrietta Tavistock ; his expression was one of sheer amazement , and when he saw his father the Duke of Bedford , whom he thought was at his chalet in Méribel , I saw tears of emotion flood his eyes for a moment . |
| 10 | I saw touches of truth and nature , and took the rest for granted . |
| 11 | Yesterday , the Home Secretary and I saw representatives of car manufacturers and car importers in the United Kingdom for the second in a series of meetings . |
| 12 | With a friend we visited the local hospital and saw victims of crocodile , hippo , and lion attacks , and a man blinded by a spitting cobra . |
| 13 | HOUSING experts yesterday saw hopes of recovery in the depressed market after unseasonally strong activity . |