Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] saw [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
| 2 | ‘ You know , I do n't think I saw a single frame . ’ |
| 3 | I mean I saw a came and I started with him and I liked it . |
| 4 | Soon I found a hut , which seemed to be empty , but when I entered I saw a pretty young woman asleep on the floor . |
| 5 | I say I saw the very first film of it |
| 6 | How come I saw a school bus this morning in half term ? |
| 7 | He hated and desired her , but she could n't let him know she saw the desire . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , say you saw a wolf running at you , winter-lean , snapping . ’ |
| 9 | In the event , the operation went smoothly , but factory staff say they saw a new uncertain side to Bernard during those tense , waiting days . |
| 10 | As morning light came I saw a much happier man leave the main gate . |
| 11 | ‘ The tavern wench says she saw the young man and woman who were later found murdered in the forest . |
| 12 | A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed . |
| 13 | Ronni imagined she saw a question form in his eyes and already she was forming her answer in her head . |
| 14 | 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 , . |
| 15 | As he walked across to the aircraft — which by then had taxied towards the buildings — he says he saw a dog jump down from the cockpit , before the pilot . |
| 16 | Paul says he saw a little cat swallowing a big dog . |
| 17 | He says he saw a duck diving underwater — it went Zoooom ! |
| 18 | He says he saw a fish and then looked at his blade and it had a part missing . |
| 19 | Johnson says he saw no animals . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Certainly the old man will have said he saw a man robbing them . |
| 22 | Do you think she saw a ghost ? |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps you were thinking about Finn 's hand and that made you think you saw a hand ? ’ |
| 24 | John Griffith Williams QC , for the defence , said : ‘ I 'm suggesting you saw the knife a week earlier . ’ |
| 25 | No , well I , I mean you saw the point really . |
| 26 | For a moment she relaxed against him , then as his words penetrated she saw a mental picture of those same arms encircling Dawn . |
| 27 | As I turned I saw no mark that the Incas had left on this landscape , beyond the forty-five terraces leading up to the thatched hut that I counted before they all became a blur . |
| 28 | When I turned I saw a long patch of the fluorescent dye that the Germans carried staining the sea a light yellow-green but could not pick out the pilot . |
| 29 | Barrows were piled high with fruit and vegetables , and as they passed the fish stall they saw the fishmonger gutting an eel . |
| 30 | Someone claimed they saw a huge wormlike thing slither out of the meteorite and bury itself in the earth . ’ |