Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] saw the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say I saw the very first film of it |
| 2 | He hated and desired her , but she could n't let him know she saw the desire . |
| 3 | ‘ The tavern wench says she saw the young man and woman who were later found murdered in the forest . |
| 4 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 5 | The tears gathered more thickly in his eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under a dripping tree . |
| 6 | John Griffith Williams QC , for the defence , said : ‘ I 'm suggesting you saw the knife a week earlier . ’ |
| 7 | No , well I , I mean you saw the point really . |
| 8 | Barrows were piled high with fruit and vegetables , and as they passed the fish stall they saw the fishmonger gutting an eel . |
| 9 | Gramley ( p. 20 ) seems to be on much the same track when he notes , concerning I saw the library to have burned down : What the speaker saw was not an occurrence , but physical evidence for a condition , a state ; for example , the speaker saw the site , the ruins . |
| 10 | I remember I remember I saw the shorts and you said they 're nice . |
| 11 | What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago ! |
| 12 | Ten days after they had left Ralarth Rorim they saw the silver sword-glitter of a river in the distance . |
| 13 | When the clerk returned he saw the letter , glanced at the door , in an attempt to see who had left it , then slotted it neatly into one of the pigeon holes behind him . |
| 14 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 15 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 16 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 17 | I suppose you saw the old man about it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have reason to believe she saw the sense of it , ’ said Viola . |
| 19 | As she collapsed she saw the last of the assassins crumple , his body lifted once then once again as the shells ripped into him . |
| 20 | As he collapsed he saw the Doctor being pummelled by the mob . |
| 21 | I felt so enthusiastic when I found this out and I began to read the stories , that I thought I saw the River of the Leprechauns , which is the crystal road to their kingdom ‘ Undersea . ’ |
| 22 | Then one morning on her way to work she was distracted by a commotion across the street and as she crossed she saw the owner of the hand being thrown out of a shop . |
| 23 | From your first message we gathered you saw the plane crash into the sea but could n't identify it . |
| 24 | As she reached the gate at the farther edge she could see right under the low bridge — and as she looked she saw the van turn the bend at the top of the short hill leading to the bridge , and increase speed down it . |
| 25 | Thereafter , much of Margarete 's unquenchable energies were devoted to telling in books and lectures what she knew of the story which Solzhenitsyn would describe definitively in his Gulag trilogy , and to trying to inoculate the young against the totalitarian virus wherever she thought she saw the threat of it . |
| 26 | As she waited for sleep , Dot thought she saw the face of the coat-owner gazing out of the dark with a complexion as pale and refined as tissue-paper . |
| 27 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 28 | They all thought she saw the same in the mirror as they saw every day . |
| 29 | Melanie chose her side the night she thought she saw the hand ; she began to hate Uncle Philip . |
| 30 | They had recently watched an old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film on the television in which she thought she saw the source of his fantasy . |