Example sentences of "saw [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first saw Salamanca at a certain moment of dusk when the setting sun still casts a deep red glow over the city 's rosy stone . |
| 2 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 3 | He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden . |
| 4 | St Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) saw Spain as a Christian land , in which the separate identities of Goth and Roman were no longer of any but historical interest . |
| 5 | They were only one of many small groups Nguyen Seth took an interest in , but Duroc knew the Elder saw Paris as an important flashpoint in the coming deluge and so they required more personal attention than similar factions in Johannesburg , Puerto Belgrano , Teheran , Shanghai , Mexico City , Malmo , Berlin , Belfast , Genoa or Birmingham . |
| 6 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 7 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
| 8 | He saw God as a glorified combination of boat and helicopter , not unlike Jules Verne 's The Terror . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her . |
| 10 | He was on the pavement , waiting , when he saw Volkov on the opposite side of the road . |
| 11 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 12 | France saw Space-Lab as an American attempt to control European space research . |
| 13 | Leese saw Mosley as an unprincipled opportunist and argued that his fascism was not based on racial nationalism . |
| 14 | Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 . |
| 15 | He has been wanted by a string of clubs , including Manchester United , who last season saw Pearce as the final piece in a title jigsaw . |
| 16 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 17 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 18 | Abroad , the German princes who had reformed their churches along Lutheran lines saw Henry as a potential ally against their common enemy , the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , but demanded as a preliminary to a political alliance that he accept their Protestant statement of faith , the Augsburg Confession of 1530 . |
| 19 | She smoothed a weary hand across her eyes and then looked up and saw Luke over the far side of the room , gazing at her with impenetrable eyes . |
| 20 | I saw Michael on a regular basis in the children 's home to which he returned . |