Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [adv] saw " in BNC.
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| 1 | One would say : ‘ Comrade so and so , ’ and their poor victim would turn white and he would have to go with them and perhaps we never saw him again . |
| 2 | So we actually saw it all , erm it 's actually quite a lot bigger than it looks . |
| 3 | I just I just saw it was pure virgin olive oil and I thought oh that 'll do |
| 4 | But somehow she never saw it until afterwards … |
| 5 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 6 | ‘ — anyway they never saw me , but before I went I heard her say , in a slinky sort of voice . |
| 7 | cos like you probably saw a completely different play to us . |
| 8 | So but er the overseas fellow , You know I 'll consider just on the same level , and ofte Well I never saw any er what you 'd call bickering and biding between the black and the white student . |
| 9 | Well I never saw the sea on fire but f when we wen went into the sea I mean we were directly beneath the platform , and at that stage I mean the whole platform was on fire . |
| 10 | As for the free kick well I never saw MOTD so I ca n't comment , though I can well believe Speed did f- up , he definitely had an off day . |
| 11 | The arrangements would be made and er oh well I never saw an oak coffin but we you 'd hear |
| 12 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 13 | Well we certainly saw it as a disadvantage , he thought we 'd be er very well off with it . |
| 14 | Then I suddenly saw that Syl , too , must look a very great fool , for he was twice my age and I was n't beautiful , nor talented , nor in the least degree interesting . |
| 15 | Then she just saw the policeman 's back , getting smaller . |
| 16 | But at least you usually saw some hot stuff in foreign films , to make up for it — tarts in bed with blokes and that sort of thing — which you did n't see anywhere else . |
| 17 | But , years later , Liz found herself visiting the Freud museum in Berggasse in Vienna , and there she suddenly saw it all — the red walls , the figurines , and , perhaps most distinctively , the predominance of red carpet-cushions , the characteristic mixture of Persian geometric patterns on floor and couch — a Jewish mixture , a Viennese mixture , a Freudian mixture ? |
| 18 | Sometimes he still saw the brushstrokes , as it were , in this naked way , so that his earlier thoughts of this garden had to be undone , the idea of black wings to be stripped from the painted leafage , the vulgar idea of blood splashes washed off the notation of geraniums . |
| 19 | What happened then he never saw , it remained always a confusion and a blank to him , but certainly there was another cry , louder and more astonished than his , and a sudden sharp impact like a blow , and the clatter of the whip falling . |
| 20 | He stops beside the kerb and looks into my face as if he has seen something there he never saw before . |
| 21 | I think , actually , that she was always a snake during the daylight hours , which is why I never saw her except at night . |
| 22 | She was thinking about pigs and children when she suddenly saw the Cheshire Cat in a tree . |
| 23 | Yet she still saw his hard proud profile , softened only by the unexpected generosity of his mouth . |
| 24 | That was when we usually saw these cases — when it was too late . |
| 25 | I also wondered about why we never saw Nellie 's Dad and eventually I asked her about him . |
| 26 | Occasionally one also saw Swiss companies used to hold intangibles . |
| 27 | Here too he also saw the opening for what he called eristics , a kind of ‘ polemical apologetics ’ in which the Christian understanding of human life as marked by sin and in need of grace could engage in controversial dialogue with other views in order to clarify the difference made by the message of the gospel . |