Example sentences of "[noun sg] i saw that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the second my eyes cleared floor level I saw that the relics had gone ! |
| 2 | Of course I saw that , in his appraisal of the situation , he was right . |
| 3 | In my mind I saw that dark , strong face , and I still felt excited by our meeting . |
| 4 | When I got out into the corridor I saw that a piece of wire had been strung between two beams on either side of the block and that a sort of ladder was leaning against it . |
| 5 | Bible I saw that it only got 68% . |
| 6 | Erm to my self respect and I just I was determined that it was n't going to happen to my daughter , so in consequence I saw that working on the side to get to get the uniform so that she could go to school in a new uniform same as all the other kids as a necessity . |
| 7 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 8 | On peering through a hole in the wall I saw that Poulette was a strapping Ardennaise , performing her duties admirably , but that her poor master was having to press so hard to keep the plough in the soil that the entire weight of his body was being taken by his arms and he was advancing across the vineyards behind Poulette with his feet off the ground . |
| 9 | When I returned , to my astonishment I saw that the sailors were already in the boat . |
| 10 | Running my eye down the page I saw that Lorne had , in his time , on stage or screen , interpreted the roles of Genghis Khan , Al Capone , Marco Polo , Huckleberry Finn , Charlemagne , Paul Revere , Erasmus , Wyatt Earp , Voltaire , Ski Masterson , Einstein , Jack Kennedy , Rembrandt , Babe Ruth , Oliver Cromwell , Amerigo Vespucci , Zorro , Darwin , Sitting Bull , Freud , Napoleon , Spiderman , Macbeth , Melville , Machiavelli , Michelangelo , Methuselah , Mozart , Merlin , Marx , Mars , Moses and Jesus Christ . |
| 11 | I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words . |
| 12 | Well as you waved your hand through the air I saw that ring there you see and I thought … ah I know what I 've been meaning to ask her for ages . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ When I was a kid I saw that film , and I wanked for days on end . |
| 14 | When my brother looked through his new spectacles into the Cinemascope format of the wide mirror I saw that he gently let his lower jaw fall a little so as to give himself more of the thin-faced appearance of Hank R Marvin in Summer Holiday . |
| 15 | Henry Jekyll 's hand was large , white , and well-made , but the hand I saw that morning on the bedcover was thin , bony , greyish-brown , and hairy . |
| 16 | In the end I saw that there was no way he would accept this treatment , and that it was doing both of us more harm than good . |
| 17 | But in the end I saw that Frejji was right — that Mala and I could probably stay unrecognized in the midst of a typical Uulaan carnival . |
| 18 | Keeping an eye on the colony over the next fortnight I saw that another half-dozen polyps had followed the first . |
| 19 | There were several cars in the drive and when I went into the house I saw that Mrs Rumney had a few people in for drinks ; people like herself — upper class and of obvious refinement . |
| 20 | And the next time I saw that happen was when erm Colin who was the coloured guy during the gulf crisis met erm our m John . |
| 21 | Fastening my watch round my wrist I saw that it was after seven and I could hear the farm men clattering in the yard outside as they began their morning tasks . |
| 22 | Here , let me' As I put it down on the table I saw that her initials were etched on the flap in black . |