Example sentences of "[pron] saw [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I saw Computer Services , I was immediately a bit disappointed . |
| 2 | ‘ But there 's a very seductive love and lushness about the way Reservoir Dogs is filmed , for instance , and when I saw Man Bites Dog the audience just laughed all the way through — it 's a difficult , dark , disturbing film and if that 's what people are finding funny , it 's very worrying . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I saw state policemen drag strikers across the road and make them kneel in the ditch there while they held shotguns in their backs . |
| 4 | I think I saw tide tables in the post office . ’ |
| 5 | If I said I saw sex organs when I looked at your rotten ink blots that would really get you going , would n't it ? |
| 6 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 7 | Another musical diversion was prompted when I saw electricity pylons striding towards , and then alongside , the road , like evenly planted trees . |
| 8 | I saw cucumber sandwiches . |
| 9 | WHILE driving through London I saw store decorations being removed . |
| 10 | I saw tank traps and great banks of boulder clay where the road had been repaired in make-shift fashion after the last perilous night of violent north-easterlies . |
| 11 | I do n't know if you saw Brush Strokes ? |
| 12 | We saw killer whales near the coast of Iceland , numerous seals and birds resting on ice floes , and heard constant stories of 30-foot Greenland sharks and aggressive Porbeagle sharks . |
| 13 | It was the most southerly westernized town , the last in which we saw television aerials . |
| 14 | All on the same alder tree we saw coal tits , gold crests , marsh willow tits and long-tailed tits and I learnt to distinguish the whip-like whistling note of the marsh tit . |
| 15 | However , in nineteen eighty four the market began to improve until , in nineteen ninety one , we saw record orders placed and , although that 's levelled out , orders still outstrip production . |
| 16 | When was the last time anybody saw hand towels or soap or a bog roll ? |
| 17 | As a result , because they saw descent groups as enlarged families , something which Marx and Engels had themselves done in The German Ideology , but which they later emphatically rejected , Marx saw writers such as Maine arguing that monogamy , the subjugation of women , the nuclear family and private property were ineluctable basic principles in the nature of man . |
| 18 | This time , they saw enemy fighters appear over Denmark , the first fighters seen since the March 6 mission to Berlin . |
| 19 | It was encouraging that the wives saw themselves as having an increasing role to play and it was equally encouraging that in many cases they saw training courses as the best way of acquiring new skills and knowledge . |
| 20 | He said he saw army tanks attack a Muslim village near Sarajevo on Sunday . |
| 21 | A Vatican statement said he saw love letters written by Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn before the schism . |
| 22 | That they were near he had no doubt , for here and there he saw remnant nests and one evening , from out of some bleak crags , three hooded crows flew up at him , black , grey , sinister . |
| 23 | He was frightened and trembled when he saw iron bars because of his earlier experience of detentions . |
| 24 | Every time his plane touched down at Nice airport and he saw palm trees and tanned porters in white , short-sleeved shirts , Adam enjoyed afresh the glamour of a life where one stepped on to a plane in bleak winter weather and shortly afterwards stepped off in warm sunshine . |