Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] saw the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By spotlighting Hemingway 's taciturn blacks , the shadowy , subdued figures in Faulkner , or the insubstantial and sketchy figure of Willa Cather 's slave in Sapphira and the Slave Girl , Morrison reveals blackness as the boundary , the context that defines the ‘ mute ’ and ‘ frozen ’ world of whiteness : ‘ Suddenly I saw the bowl , the structure that transparently ( and invisibly ) permits the ordered life it contains to exist in the larger world . ’ |
| 2 | Suddenly she saw the car . |
| 3 | Then suddenly she saw the skipping-rope . |
| 4 | ‘ She told you Alex was the father , and suddenly you saw the awful vision of history repeating itself . |
| 5 | Perhaps you saw the two TV programmes on American fundamentalism recently which put the ghastly and unacceptable face of that form of fundamentalism before us . |
| 6 | Perhaps you saw the Shell poster with the headline : " Nothing is more dangerous than a wet Zebra . " |
| 7 | Alone she saw the last of the adult Callanish eagles fall ; alone she watched . |
| 8 | So you saw the cowboy in the spaghetti western on the cover of the last magazine , well it seems that the only way was up for Steve Perry from Pest Control , Birmingham South . |
| 9 | So you saw the did you ? |
| 10 | It was not Christie alone who saw the connections between peripheral military patronage and profit , and offers of minor posts about the Castle of Stirling were often considered worth making by politicians soliciting the town 's vote . |
| 11 | In we saw the Health Authority choosing not to purchase services directly from the N H S for their but purchasing from a voluntary stroke private , privately motivated organization . |
| 12 | Looking down he saw the final fearful act of that day . |
| 13 | Right which saw the temporary rise to prominence of the NPD between 1966 and 1968 brought a very minor revival of positive views about Hitler and Nazism . |
| 14 | Soon she saw the house of the March Hare in front of her . |
| 15 | From the earth bank outside she looked north ; soon she saw the bulkily-furred figures of Morthen and three of the hunters ; they followed the edge of the wood , round to the south , and were soon lost to sight . |
| 16 | I had a good laugh about it and eventually she saw the funny side . |
| 17 | From then on she saw the union as an organisation which redressed the injustices of the employers . |
| 18 | The more I looked at different societies , the more I saw the little traps lurking in the small print … |
| 19 | I took the milk , and I poured it on the floor where the slate is hollowed , because once I saw the lake in moonlight and it was white . |
| 20 | Elinor 's only defence system was to say , in a tone fractionally the right side of panic — ‘ I 'm in here ! ’ — if ever she saw the door move . |
| 21 | Once more she saw the attractive man she had noticed in the High Street , and her colour rose as she recalled how she had hoped to meet him some day . |
| 22 | More and more they saw the folly of setting out with a medium in search of a message … |
| 23 | Then , when I was grown up I saw the film The Sinking of the Titanic and it brought back the terror . |
| 24 | Thirty-five years later I saw the film again in New York . |
| 25 | Later I saw the degree of animation which videos like this can stimulate among activists . |
| 26 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 27 | Two years later I saw the Giffens again . |
| 28 | The American woman strolled over to the riverbank to watch him , and as the fragments of the raw flesh floated away down-stream she saw the water churned to a white froth by shoals of ravenous fish fighting to devour them . |
| 29 | Er , hands up who saw the Horizon programme on Jeannie Okay , so so you do n't want to see it then do you really ? |
| 30 | Later we saw the Duke of Edinburgh 's yawl , Bloodhound . |