Example sentences of "[pron] saw [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Which is why I saw no real point in pushing the human poor-little-baby bit . ’
2 Erm and also because I saw no early prospect of the application coming reports .
3 But I saw no other way out : I did n't know if I would ever have a chance again . ’
4 ‘ I wanted it ’ , he concluded the note already quoted , ‘ because I saw no other weapon then to use in the fight against unemployment . ’
5 I saw no other way of protecting the interests of the Corosini , ’ he growled .
6 I saw no such thing . ’
7 I saw no clear advantage now from 17 .
8 But peering close I saw no grey at all ;
9 Perhaps it was an effect of the screen , but I thought I saw a flush rise on her throat .
10 Anyone want to come ? ’ or , ‘ I saw a fallen branch over the road this morning .
11 I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street .
12 All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals .
13 One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library .
14 I saw a haughty little hedgehog and I was hooked .
15 I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre .
16 Eddie Thorning and I saw a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor , and make money by gaining competitive advantage through an oil-and-parts offer to workshops and petrol stations . ’
17 Let me leave you there for the moment with my views of high morale as I saw it , and I saw a great deal of it during my constant circuit within the Command .
18 I was beginning to feel suspicious about my room , but when he opened a door with a key and turned on the light I saw a small clean room with a bed , a table and a chair .
19 As I turned away I saw a small patch of khaki material caught on the very top of the wire .
20 After the service I saw a small fishing boat had just returned and was beginning to unload .
21 I saw a small round room just for a second .
22 Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire .
23 As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky .
24 Er yes I saw a small erm Afro-Caribbean child erm near the bed , whereabouts he was I I I I 'm not sure but it was near the bed .
25 I saw a red-haired man jump down from one of the branches as if he , too , was sickening of the scene and was preparing to leave .
26 Finally , I saw a young woman .
27 I saw a young girl who was lying on the side of the road .
28 LAST week on a bus I saw a young mother spank her little boy when he said the F-word .
29 I saw a young woman leaving as I arrived , rather narrow face , nice clothes , looking cross . ’
30 On another campus , I saw a young woman crying uncontrollably .
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