Example sentences of "[pron] saw [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw no such thing . ’ |
| 2 | He flicked his hand and I thought I saw a few spots of red appear on the shiny white tile beside me . |
| 3 | I saw a few sort of puzzled looks when |
| 4 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
| 5 | Erm , I saw a few white hats but erm I tried a couple on , I thought one would have suited me , but it did n't . |
| 6 | Half an hour after leaving camp , I saw the same lorry , pulled off the road beside a derelict shack . |
| 7 | Later , of course , I saw the same look on other men 's faces — ‘ |
| 8 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 9 | I saw the same look on a fellow who died |
| 10 | Then she saw a little glass table with three legs , and on the top of it was a very small gold key . |
| 11 | Soon she saw a little glass box near her on the floor . |
| 12 | Quite unable to stop herself , she too reached out to stroke the satin-softness of his skin , her eyes darkening as she saw the many bruises that came from trying to control the incredibly fast cars that flew so low and hard round the Grand Prix circuits . |
| 13 | She saw the same high empty space between the ground and the broken glass roof , she recognized the air which smelled of soot and coal-smoke and was thick as grey soup , and the mottled pigeon-droppings and the grey suits of men , the black hats . |
| 14 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 15 | They all thought she saw the same in the mirror as they saw every day . |
| 16 | ‘ You saw no such thing ! ’ |
| 17 | We saw a few small birds flitting away from the roadside , but for the moment these had to remain unidentified ‘ little brown jobs ’ . |
| 18 | The good , the bad , the criminal , the religious Nicodemus that we saw a few weeks ago , all are sinners . |
| 19 | Just as we saw a few weeks ago Zaccheus was , er , between him being up the tree and hitting the ground , that man was converted . |
| 20 | We saw no more villages , and the river , broken now into narrow channels by low islands , began to curve . |
| 21 | We saw the same unbelieving stares on the faces of the Americans who watched the ‘ Challenger ’ failure . |
| 22 | They saw a few workmen on bicycles , and perhaps four cars ; and that was all . |
| 23 | They saw a few hares , two of which the tracker managed to shoot for the pot , and there were buzzards overhead sometimes , but that was all . |
| 24 | and she said David said he saw a few snow flakes . |
| 25 | And then he saw the same look of horror on Jimmy 's face as he pulled him roughly back . |