Example sentences of "[adv] i saw the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The more I looked at different societies , the more I saw the little traps lurking in the small print … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then , when I was grown up I saw the film The Sinking of the Titanic and it brought back the terror . |
| 5 | Thirty-five years later I saw the film again in New York . |
| 6 | Later I saw the degree of animation which videos like this can stimulate among activists . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two years later I saw the Giffens again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now I saw the full implications of the concessions I had made , and how compromised I had become . |
| 11 | Well I saw the curtains were down erm when I took the triplets |
| 12 | He said , well I saw the queue , and I joined it |
| 13 | But here I saw the way the streets were going , how they darkened despite the sun , the juicy air , the innocence of the covering blue . |
| 14 | I figured I must be the only fool who was trying to start something ; I was trying to get that big BB King sound and then I saw The Fabulous Thunderbirds , with Jimmie Vaughan on guitar . |
| 15 | But then I saw the keeper struggling . |
| 16 | But then I saw the victim . |
| 17 | Then I saw the spare figure of Captain Robins walking towards me , bag in hand : even on land after such a short voyage he had the kind of rolling gait that proclaimed him a man of the sea . |
| 18 | Then I saw the uniforms . ’ |
| 19 | Then I saw the senior registrar , who had already been briefed by the house officer about my history of abuse . |
| 20 | Then I saw the door at the end of the passage . |
| 21 | Then I saw the light of his candle approaching through the darkness , and he appeared , looking pale and depressed . |
| 22 | Then I saw the small monster too . |
| 23 | And then I saw the man . ’ |
| 24 | There were rapid footsteps outside my bedroom door , and then I saw the light of a candle in the room . |
| 25 | Then I saw the photographs in the newspapers , and I was still unsure . |
| 26 | Then I saw the colour of your face , and I stopped laughing . |
| 27 | I thought about leaving a few of Simon 's visiting cards around , or suggesting they all get together and build a glider in the loft , but then I saw the frosty-eyed Matron in a blue uniform and matching hair rinse clocking me from behind the desk . |
| 28 | Then I saw the top tier of the cake and that has got to be the er piece , piece de resistance I think as the French say and I know that some very exciting ideas are coming out of the South East region . |
| 29 | I came out of the house and then I saw the roof on fire . |
| 30 | And then I saw The Real McCoy that was the last one I think . |