Example sentences of "when i saw [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
| 2 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |
| 3 | One day I disturbed three separate males and was feeling thoroughly frustrated and incompetent when I saw a magnificent bull , silhouetted on a ridge against the setting sun , a graceful , powerful body with a great sweep of spiralling horns . |
| 4 | I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’ |
| 5 | When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold . |
| 6 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 7 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 8 | As a conservator in Europe , involved with the treatment of stone and marble affected by the ravages of twentieth-century pollution , I was delighted when I saw the great marble buildings at Agra seemingly unaffected by such problems . |
| 9 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 10 | When I saw the red dress , I knew that was the one I wanted . |
| 11 | But those gloomy musings ended abruptly when the skim dropped me near the pod was berthed — and when I saw the shadowy figures around it . |
| 12 | I had half-managed to con a colleague in the Press-box into believing that the Brewongle Stand was named after an old left-arm spinner from Parramatta named Bluey Brewongle when I saw the dark-green uniforms emerging from the pavilion , and the emotions crowded in with a sudden impact . |
| 13 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 14 | In March , on a visit to Leatherhead , I was walking around the JS branch when I saw an old customer . |