Example sentences of "saw [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
7 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Elinor said , ‘ I saw Sam for a few minutes , darling . |
11 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
12 | He saw God as a glorified combination of boat and helicopter , not unlike Jules Verne 's The Terror . |
13 | ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her . |
14 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
15 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
16 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
17 | He was on the pavement , waiting , when he saw Volkov on the opposite side of the road . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | France saw Space-Lab as an American attempt to control European space research . |
20 | Leese saw Mosley as an unprincipled opportunist and argued that his fascism was not based on racial nationalism . |
21 | Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The result : Des was airlifted out of the Gulf in mid-May and , on May 29 , at Arden Grange International Quarantine Kennels in Albourne , Sussex , Dave saw Des for the first time since March 23 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | I saw Michael on a regular basis in the children 's home to which he returned . |