Example sentences of "saw [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I saw my picture on the front page of the local newspaper I knew it meant trouble . ’ |
| 2 | Violet saw her mistake about the same time as the card . |
| 3 | The French , therefore , set about building galleys , their principal repair yard being the Clos des Galées at Rouen , which came to be developed in the course of the fourteenth century , and which saw its heyday during the successful wars waged by Charles V in the 1370s . |
| 4 | I saw their breath on the frosty air . |
| 5 | He would now and then play the most egregious fool in his carriage and was so much given to jesters , players and childish sports , to make himself merry , that anybody who saw his gravity on the one part and his folly and lightness on the other , would surely say that there were two distinct persons in him . |
| 6 | One day , in Times Square , Dustin looked up and saw his face for the first time on a billboard . |
| 7 | He saw his face in the glaucous basin as he cleaned his teeth . |
| 8 | And then suddenly she saw his image in the looking glass . |
| 9 | De Gaulle saw his movement as the provisional French government , whose responsibility was the preservation of the nation 's rank and reputation . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw your name on the front page . ’ |