Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] saw [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only saw Robin |
| 2 | Hello , Just how does anyone who 's old enough to remember compare the two I only saw Gary Sprake play twice ( famous so I ca n't really remember how bad he was . |
| 3 | So popular was this usage at one time that I recall examining final school-practice for one college when in observing two full days of drama lessons I only saw games , no drama at all . |
| 4 | I only saw highlights on match of the day , but from what I saw , the play was amazing . |
| 5 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 6 | I 'm looking out at the moodily lit bathroom and wondering what I would do if I suddenly saw William appear out there , flight bags in hand , a Surprise , honey , I 'm home ! look on his face . |
| 7 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 8 | Well on that join I suddenly saw water rushing down the wall ! |
| 9 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 10 | I just saw England , I was never in it . |
| 11 | Funnily enough , I just saw Mick ( Robinson , the Brian May lookalike ) the other day , and he has n't changed at all . |
| 12 | ‘ I just saw Guido , ’ she said , coming up to Ronni . |
| 13 | No I was , I just saw Food and Drink |
| 14 | I finally saw Dundee on my forty-first birthday and I pledged the ten quid to his lovely leathery face and his matchless , understated performance . |
| 15 | I once saw Hyde too and had the same strong feelings of dislike for him as you did . |
| 16 | I once saw Tischler cry tears when Hitler marched into Vienna . |
| 17 | I once saw Eddie travel nearly half a mile like that . |
| 18 | I once saw Bert cry tears when he had rouged a gnat 's cock too much off . |
| 19 | Much of the extensive heath country of Lincolnshire was successfully enclosed and converted into good arable land , but between Sleaford and Lincoln , Arthur Young saw , in the 1790s , ‘ hundreds of acres in the veriest state of waste I ever saw land , whether appropriated or unappropriated , in this kingdom . |
| 20 | He caused more suffering among his allow drivers than any other man I ever saw race and the only man who could possibly come closer to him as a road-hog , even when his own position was hopeless , was Riccardo Patrese , a far more refined driver than Clay in every other respect . |
| 21 | So I will begin with the first time I ever saw John Russell . |
| 22 | ‘ This was the only time I ever saw Ken himself break up and get stuck , ’ remembers Lance Percival . |
| 23 | ‘ The first time I ever saw Bertrand Russell he came in — this was a party at the Bells ’ house . |
| 24 | I do n't think I ever saw J[ack] work more than half an hour without the cry of ‘ Barboys ! ’ — ‘ Coming , dear ! ’ , down would go the pen , and he would be away perhaps five minutes , perhaps half an hour ; possibly to do nothing more important than stand by the kitchen range as scullery maid . |
| 25 | ‘ If I ever saw pepper coming out of a pepper pot I would find that funny . |
| 26 | But when I pushed open the gate into the yard on my return , I always saw Jean-Claude at the window . |
| 27 | I also saw faces of people I knew and had met in my life ; they floated in front of my eyes one after another in an endless stream . |
| 28 | I also saw Mr Roddy Llewellyn 's charming summer house , which is one of the range of garden furnishings called Roddy Llewellyn Classic Collection . |
| 29 | Andrew Ray told me : ‘ I often saw Kenneth and some of the things he did and thought to myself , ‘ What a waste ! ’ |
| 30 | I briefly saw Gina flit by talking into a short-wave radio and was momentarily stunned . |