Example sentences of "saw [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coarse Angling team saw them finish in fourth place , just 10 points away from a medal position , in the World Freshwater Angling Championships . |
| 2 | cos I saw them skating round that car |
| 3 | I felt guilty — after all , they had trained me — but in the end I saw so many of my friends making the move , I saw them working in better conditions , earning so much more for fewer hours , ’ she grimaced , ‘ in the end I decided I 'd be crazy not to join them . ’ |
| 4 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
| 5 | I saw you disappear in this direction , and decided it was now or never . ’ |
| 6 | I said to her : ‘ I saw you talking to that fellow , and I 'd warned you . ’ |
| 7 | Each subject saw one set of 24 films and rated each on eight different seven-point scales presented by computer , thus each film was rated by 24 subjects . |
| 8 | She saw herself wheeled along white corridors , wired up to huge machines that clicked , whirred , and flashed lights : this was her greatest fear , that she might be kept alive artificially by machinery , a mumbling vegetable , after her natural time to die had arrived . |
| 9 | In this case , I saw her caught with classic techniques — but none of them scored . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't ask me , missis ; all I know , wherever she went on those nights , she 'd leave here at half-past six and it was lucky if the clock saw her coming in that door at half-past eleven at night . ’ |
| 11 | Spencer failed to retain his card this year after his debut season on the Volvo European Tour which saw him finish in 178th position in the Order of Merit with winnings of just £7,700 . |
| 12 | I realize that I am standing just as Summerchild stood that other night , when I saw him gazing with such intensity into his own life . |
| 13 | I 've had one of your chaps round already , asking whether I saw him go by that evening . ’ |
| 14 | Jimmy saw him coming through blurred vision and wished that he could get to his feet , but he could n't move . |
| 15 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 16 | You saw that film , you saw what happened to that person . |
| 17 | Did n't we have a similar streak about four/five years ago , i.e. the last year Bremner was in charge — this saw us shoot up the second division before an ignominous defeat against Shrewsbury Town ( who ? ) saw us plummet to mid table yet again . |