Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] saw [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 2 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 3 | They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem |
| 4 | It was not the case that he neglected domestic issues — least of all in the period 1963 – 65 — but rather that he saw them within the larger framework of France 's relations with the world . |
| 5 | Paros had been a failure ; but Miltiades ' son Kimon pursued a similar line in the 470s and 460s , showing that he saw himself as the heir to his father 's policies as well as his debts ( for which see Plut . |
| 6 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 7 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 8 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 9 | I shall tell you , instead , of the time Gerda and I saw you on the stage in Vienna . ’ |
| 10 | I would n't cos I , I ca n't if I saw you in the street I do n't know you I could n't be , I could n't be attracted to you . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 13 | You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point . |
| 14 | You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point . |
| 15 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 16 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
| 17 | So , if anybody saw me on the morning after , either hobbling up or down the stairs in St Swithin 's or leaping up and down ( very slowly ) , with an ‘ ooh , ah ’ , accompanied by much frantic rubbing of calf muscles , you know why . |
| 18 | Doubtless they describe the hard life of the villager and the poverty of his surroundings as Crabbe saw them : but he was not a peasant , as Clare was , and he saw them from the outside as harsh , ugly and wretched . |
| 19 | We reached the Bedford Square House and he saw me up the steps . |
| 20 | It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act . |
| 21 | No I know Chris told me cos he saw him on the morning at the garage then he . |
| 22 | Even if anyone saw it under the charred fringes of her robe , she could say it was homework . |
| 23 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 24 | but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears |
| 25 | We all buy goods on impulse sometimes — simply because we saw them on the shelf of the shop . |
| 26 | Franco , however , would not delegate because he saw himself as the only person capable of carrying out the mission of maintaining a united Spain . |
| 27 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 28 | It 's worth also mentioning , since you saw it in the practical class , that staphylococci in general produce this enzyme catalase all of these er lo thi this is the enzyme which breaks down hydrogen peroxide and detoxifies it . |
| 29 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |
| 30 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |