Example sentences of "[adv] i saw [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Suddenly I saw a man cleaning windows in the dark . |
2 | Suddenly I saw a whole host of photographers hiding behind the bushes . |
3 | In the moonlight I walked sadly around , until suddenly I saw a woman 's figure in the shadows . |
4 | I was going to shout to tell them they had forgotten me , when suddenly I saw a huge creature walking after them into the sea . |
5 | Suddenly I saw a big black shape in the darkness . |
6 | By spotlighting Hemingway 's taciturn blacks , the shadowy , subdued figures in Faulkner , or the insubstantial and sketchy figure of Willa Cather 's slave in Sapphira and the Slave Girl , Morrison reveals blackness as the boundary , the context that defines the ‘ mute ’ and ‘ frozen ’ world of whiteness : ‘ Suddenly I saw the bowl , the structure that transparently ( and invisibly ) permits the ordered life it contains to exist in the larger world . ’ |
7 | As I was putting them down I saw a piece of paper leaning against the spice-rack . |
8 | At a junk-shop a little further along I saw a china snuff-box painted with ribbons in lover's-knots , and an M on the lid , which I bought for Mavis . |
9 | Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire . |
10 | As I turned away I saw a small patch of khaki material caught on the very top of the wire . |
11 | But peering close I saw no grey at all ; |
12 | I looked an den I saw de norm |
13 | The more I looked at different societies , the more I saw the little traps lurking in the small print … |
14 | [ In those days , if you were a witch you were safe as long as you kept away from the common people : once I saw a group of villagers spread-eagle a warlock , drive a stake through his heart and bury him beneath a crossroads gibbet . ] |
15 | I took the milk , and I poured it on the floor where the slate is hollowed , because once I saw the lake in moonlight and it was white . |
16 | I mean like I saw a double-decker bus on the moon and that sort of stuff . |
17 | Much of his study of the often shameful encounter between the conquerors and the native Indians was hazy to me now , but the clean lines of the narrative still reverberated within me whenever I saw an Inca ashlar . |
18 | When I got up I saw a friend by my side with a lot of blood , and I saw she was dead . |
19 | Then , when I was grown up I saw the film The Sinking of the Titanic and it brought back the terror . |
20 | Thirty-five years later I saw the film again in New York . |
21 | Later I saw the degree of animation which videos like this can stimulate among activists . |
22 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
23 | Two years later I saw the Giffens again . |
24 | And we had to help them to move and you know help them to move their things and really I saw the kind of difficulties the girls would be living under . |
25 | Often I saw a clean-limbed beech , pale and slender , yet firm in its loftiness , that shook delicately arched branches at the top , and below held out an arm on which a form of schoolboys might have sat , — rising out of fine grass and printing its perfect outlines on the sky , — and I could fancy it enjoyed a life of pleasure that was health , beauty that was strength , thought that was repose . |
26 | I thought it might of been Pat sort of at that time , but erm when I looked out I saw a man with a billboard thing |
27 | Now I saw a beautiful woman who always wore a hat because she had lost her hair . |
28 | Now I saw the full implications of the concessions I had made , and how compromised I had become . |
29 | Well I saw a sending off yesterday on television that er I thought was nowhere near as severe as that and I must say that he 's a very luck man Stan . |
30 | Well I saw a pair of trousers in there and they were about erm four pounds fifty and shirt which was one pound fifty ! |