Example sentences of "saw that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
| 2 | Some observers saw that as fair comment on the Cabinet meeting taking place inside . |
| 3 | In the first experiment , we saw that as the number of possibilities in which the cards may be sorted increases , the reaction time required increases proportionally . |
| 4 | Ruth saw that as a deserving punishment for what she was doing now — having an affair she should n't be having . |
| 5 | The Labour party , when O'Brien was a TD , was committed to a change , but Dick Spring saw that as an obstacle to the Labour-Fianna Fail coalition he wanted . |
| 6 | In your letter you present the fact that yourself and the Deputy Director have opted for an increase based on the Grade 1 salary and presumably you saw that as a gesture of good will or a concession to our demands . |
| 7 | I saw that despite his good looks Syl was a little too short and a little too fat , that when he went about his garden stripped to bathing trunks he aroused not desire but embarrassment . |
| 8 | The scales fell from his eyes and he saw that over many long years of prehistory , all trackways were in straight lines marked out by experts on a sighting system . |
| 9 | He saw that through them she was imagining a new life . |
| 10 | In Acts 8 , I saw that for the converts in Samaria , although wonderfully converted and delivered from evil ( v 7 ) and baptised ( v 12 ) , there was still something missing . |
| 11 | Mm , the lady at the checkout when I got Tim 's that time , do you remember , cos all the birthdays come together and I saw that for Tim so it make him one |
| 12 | They saw that between his fingers he held a slender , intricately carved set of silver pipes and , as they waited , he lifted the silver pipes to his lips and began to play . |
| 13 | Mm , very good , yeah , I was spellbound when I first saw that , saw that about , I think the first time about three years ago |
| 14 | She had ideas about these two , especially about Michel , but saw that to them she was invisible , not quite real , as au pair girls frequently , perhaps usually , are . |
| 15 | We spoke in earlier chapters of people 's search for meaning as they look for the person who has died , and saw that at such times a sortie into faith healing or clairvoyance is quite common . |
| 16 | Tilting her head back , Ruth saw that at the farthest height the green melted into . |
| 17 | So let's just er to put it in context again , we saw that on the day of the ascension Jesus instructed his friends to go on proclaiming the good news throughout the world to help others become disciples , and bring to them , and bring them to membership of the church through baptism . |
| 18 | Any failure of the controls , they 're going to drop out of the sky indeed we saw that on Saturday … |
| 19 | I saw that on the well proposed |
| 20 | The EC rightly saw that with France and Italy moving towards electronic toll collection to save labour , and the Netherlands moving towards road pricing to deal with congestion , drivers travelling around Europe could be faced with having to plaster numerous different black boxes all over their windscreens . |
| 21 | Not because he wanted to set up a model village , but because he saw that with the employment he was generating at Bournville out in the Worcestershire countryside , speculative builders would come in and put up very inferior dwellings if he did n't take a hand . |
| 22 | In section 3.3.2 we saw that with a fixed monetary base banks could increase their lending only if they were prepared to operate at lower ratios of base : deposits . |
| 23 | At least she thought him middle-aged , but his voice was n't and when she looked at him again she saw that under his haggard features and emaciated frame he was still young , perhaps in his late twenties . |
| 24 | He showed how he planted the young trees in pot-holes where the soil was richer and she saw that after all there was nothing haphazard about the planting ; it had the symmetry of necessity . |
| 25 | It was Mr Major who saw that in the preservation of the Union lay an issue which would strike a chord not only in Scotland , but across Britain . |
| 26 | Lewis , who was no fool , soon saw that in some incomprehensible way he had put his uncle 's back up . |
| 27 | He saw that in the last few seconds , she had been overcome with exhaustion . |
| 28 | What distinguished Lenin and his party was that they saw that in Russia liberal rule could be overthrown while capitalism was still in its infancy . |
| 29 | Some writers suggest that reduced participation in work was encouraged by Victorian moralists through an idealization of the role of the home , while others saw that in the early twentieth century ‘ the development of separate suburban environments in the maturing industrial/commercial city was itself of crucial importance in the establishment of the home as a separate sphere and in the enforcement of the social definition of a woman 's place as being in the home ’ ( Mackenzie and Rose , 1983 , 169 ) . |
| 30 | Sycorax saw that in this regard she had achieved her curse : for Kit too , Roukoubé was a mongrel whelp , the reminder of his weakness and Ariel 's strangeness . |