Example sentences of "[noun sg] i saw [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an instant I saw a different woman : not the sour , bored old creature I had grown to expect , but someone strong and humorous . |
| 2 | Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order . |
| 3 | Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van . |
| 4 | Later in the afternoon I saw a meal for all 600 prisoners being cooked in one gigantic iron pot over a blazing fire . |
| 5 | Beneath the shirt I saw the outline of her breasts . |
| 6 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 7 | When we were going out of the theatre at the end of the pantomime I saw a little lad crawl under the seat and put it in his pocket . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I examined Southgate 's horse I saw the spur marks . |
| 10 | I started running and when I reached this end of the scaffolding I saw a woman bending over something on the ground at the other end . |
| 11 | My master said they had a splendid library , as well they might , but the only work I saw the nuns do was clever and intricate embroidery of curtains , cloths and napkins . |
| 12 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 13 | Things seemed quiet enough , but it was an uneasy calm and in the late afternoon , there was a crump of a bomb and when I looked out of the window I saw a black pall of smoke in the distance . |
| 14 | From the window I saw the flats opposite , their even lines making them look like children 's drawings . |
| 15 | He braked in the yard at the rear of the Lodge , and through the windscreen I saw a plume of smoke rising almost vertically beyond a pantiled outbuilding which I assumed must be Laura 's studio . |
| 16 | When he plugged in — Sonic The Hedgehog I saw the fantastic graphics and nearly fainted . |
| 17 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 18 | For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a young boy , about 15 years old , with a fresh face and golden curls . |
| 19 | For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a young boy , about 15 years old , with a fresh face and golden curls . ’ |
| 20 | The moment I saw the church , although there were considerable differences — the main and obvious one being it was not on a hill — I accepted it as my church . |
| 21 | Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon . |
| 22 | I had n't come to this place with the conscious intention of divesting myself of my now cumbersome virginity ; but from the moment I saw the actor again — certainly from the moment his arms went round me and I felt the sense of fond familiarity , of affection rediscovered — I knew it was inevitable that we should , sooner or later , make love . |
| 23 | Away to the right I saw the flat gleam of the loch . |
| 24 | Then yesterday as I was doing my prison-exercise in the outer cellar I saw a nail . |
| 25 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue . |
| 26 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the Queen watching us and talking to the Director . |
| 27 | With this background , as a teacher I saw the subject as a collection of facts and skills that I had to impart to my pupils in a well-defined sequence . |
| 28 | I was watching the Granada Sport Preview on Friday night with Elton Welsby , sitting half asleep through all the usual crap about City being in crisis , United going to win everything , etc , when all of a sudden I saw a scandinavian player being interviewed about his being signed to Oldham ( I think ) . |
| 29 | One day I saw a man pulling a small cart . |
| 30 | ‘ At first I thought art was simply a matter of reproducing what I saw ; but one day I saw a reproduction of Piero della Francesca 's Pietà , and I suddenly realised that there was a huge spiritual element in painting . |