Example sentences of "we saw [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We saw him at the Test matches , congratulating Gooch . |
| 2 | We saw him in the Toy Museum , Rottingdean , |
| 3 | We all buy goods on impulse sometimes — simply because we saw them on the shelf of the shop . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There are tigers there , and there 's leopards and things called sloth bears , a sort of bear , but they 're actually quite rare so er we did n't see any of those , apart from the rhinos , we went very very quietly crawled under the undergrowth and we saw them in a water hole and they were just bathing there . |
| 6 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 7 | PC Cotton , 55 , a London river policeman for 19 years , said : ‘ When we saw her in the water she looked like a doll . |
| 8 | Despite the ominous row of trespassing hatchbacks , we saw nobody on the ridge at all , and luxuriated in the surprising solitude that one should n't expect so near a town like Fort William , which grows more like a Highland Gorbals every day . |
| 9 | We saw it for a moment and then the match went out . |
| 10 | We saw it as an opportunity to demystify the male worlds of plumbing , electricity and carpentry . |
| 11 | We saw it on the night Sabine … ’ |
| 12 | We saw it at the hospital |
| 13 | In the immediate term , we saw ourselves as a resource which the B.Ed . |