Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] saw [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outskirters seldom or never saw lettuce . |
| 2 | That scene ended an episode that also saw Frank and Betty taking two children to the zoo . |
| 3 | Faith then , the man who wrote that never saw Emmet being executed , or any other man for that matter . |
| 4 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 5 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 6 | So Anne stayed at home , and only saw Diana in the evenings . |
| 7 | On a much more optimistic note , the European Open marked a change in fortunes for Sandy Lyle — he finished tied for 8th place on 284 — and also saw Russell Claydon in fine form on his professional debut in the British Isles . |
| 8 | But the man was a romantic and probably saw Steve as an obstacle he might have to overcome . |
| 9 | H. B. Silverman and M. J. Dunbar watched narwhals off Baffin Island and repeatedly saw males cross their tusks and strike them against each other . |
| 10 | Woodruffe turned his head sideways and dimly saw Rogers sitting under the table , cross-legged , smoking . |
| 11 | I looked through one of the narrow arched windows and immediately saw Conchis . |
| 12 | They almost tripped over the body of a Sellsword , his neck tilted at a weird angle ; and then saw Ratagan . |
| 13 | Eyes bright with tears , she looked at Mary , and then saw Rory standing behind and to one side of them . |
| 14 | Ash and I danced , then cousin Josh asked her , and I sat watching the people dance for a while — the best way to extract any real enjoyment from dancing , I 've always thought , but I seem to be unusual in not gaining any real pleasure from performing the movements — and then saw Helen Urvill , entering the hall holding a lager can . |
| 15 | She could hear Tess moving about , and then saw Tess leave the house , fully dressed in her fashionable clothes . |
| 16 | In the 1910s and 1920s , some newspaper proprietors seemed willing to continue to subsidize their newspapers on political grounds , but the mounting losses incurred in this process — Pearson spent £¾m keeping the Westminster Gazette going , the TUC had spent £½m on the Daily Herald between 1921 and 1928 but only saw profit once in the early years — increased the reluctance of the politically committed to get involved . |
| 17 | He forged into a 6-5 lead in the fourth set but then saw King draw two shots close to the jack on the eighth end for a match lie . |
| 18 | He forged into a 6-5 lead in the fourth set but then saw King draw two shots close to the jack on the eighth end for a match lie . |
| 19 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |