Sentence examples for saw distinguished from inspiring English sources

Mead saw distinguished service during the war and has plane was shot down over Belgium in 1942.

I have seen distinguished-looking gentlemen jump over the rope at the first screening of the new Indiana Jones movie and get brutually manhandled back into line.

New Yorkers saw a distinguished account of "The Four Temperaments" by San Francisco Ballet little more than a week ago.

The mid-20th century saw many distinguished continental scholars, displaced by Nazism and Communism, relocating to Oxford.

Glancing down, I saw a distinguished-looking gentleman with wild gray hair, a trimmed gray beard, and glasses — possibly, one of the professors or doctors — who, having seized my shoulder, was trying to haul himself up the stairs.

On the balcony next to our room we saw a distinguished-looking couple and one double-take later we were saying "what-on-earth-are-you-doing-here?" to Richard and Ruth Rogers.

The New Yorker, May 9 , 1925P. 1 About to board a train at Atlantic City for New York, Marc Connelly saw a distinguished-looking gentleman having trouble in getting a Herald Tribune he wanted.

Good though it is to see these distinguished dancers, the choreography makes no special use of their gifts.

This was in some ways a self-evidently noble cause – who would not wish to see these distinguished scholars given the chance to carry on invaluable research into their subjects?

Britain has seen many distinguished actors, from John Gielgud to Ian McKellen, play Prospero in "The Tempest" in recent years, but never, I think, an actress assay the Milan ese magician.

It's surely no accident that this past generation, roughly 1980 to 2010, has seen more distinguished artists of all stripes accept peerages, knighthoods and other establishment baubles, from (Sir) William Golding (1988) to (Sir) Stephen Spender (1983), whose celebrated line "I think continually of those who were truly great" now has a rather hollow ring to it.