Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For at that moment I thought I saw that all my previous beliefs in progress were built on shifting sand . |
| 2 | I saw that superb five-eighth , Ian Thompson , in the majesty of his sweat and grime . |
| 3 | And as I got in here I saw that one of the men sitting just where you are was Hal MacQuillan . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's nice to be able to say that I saw that big right coming but Ruddock did n't , in fact I do n't think he saw anything that came his way . |
| 5 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 6 | My first instinct was to back the car and find a different way round , but then in the headlights I saw that three or four men were all dressed in black shirts . |
| 7 | I saw that next to it Dana wrote ‘ Sixtynine ’ ( the amatory position the French call soixante-neuf ) and changed the ‘ comma ’ shapes into ‘ 69 ’ . |
| 8 | But as soon as I saw that little boy I knew it was n't Ben . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw that little curtsy she made to you — it must be difficult to get people to do that in the 1990s . ’ |
| 10 | A second later , I saw that this question had no psychic implication . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw that this cataclysm must be an expiation for some barbarous crime of civilization , some terrible human lie . |
| 12 | I HAD to cry when I saw that blind singer Lennie Peters is fighting cancer . |
| 13 | Keeping an eye on the colony over the next fortnight I saw that another half-dozen polyps had followed the first . |
| 14 | When I saw this happening I began to watch more closely , and I saw that some nights even when she was n't up on the stage Madame had her eye on these two and would often look from one to the other and then back again . |
| 15 | It almost broke her heart when she saw that darting look of imitation cross his face as she brought him bad news . |
| 16 | Now she saw that all of them were alone , not least those who chatted so animatedly together . |
| 17 | The party was about to depart when the mother of the dead girl noticed that the earth over the entrance to the tomb had been disturbed , and when she looked more closely she saw that one of the roofing stones had been moved . |
| 18 | Then she saw that that was not quite right , because their features were very different . |
| 19 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |
| 20 | With disbelief and joy , she saw that this one was not paste , but real . |
| 21 | Just as swiftly , she saw that this was absurd . |
| 22 | She saw that this had really caught the other girl 's imagination , and hurried to strike while the iron was hot . |
| 23 | It was only after the women had left that she thought to check the receipt book to make sure it had not been her duty to collect payment for today 's four lunches , then sighed with relief when she saw that this had been attended to at lunchtime by Jean . |
| 24 | So Louise got quite a shock when , flicking through the local paper she saw that ANOTHER girl had been crowned carnival queen . |
| 25 | She could no longer feel her feet , but , glancing down at them , not too obviously for fear Richard should feel that he ought to do something about them , she saw that both of them were now bleeding . |
| 26 | She could n't hear what was being said , but she saw that three caravans were standing inside the field by the gate and that several rough-looking men were raising their fists and shouting at Farmer Yatton , Angela 's father , who was ordering them out . |
| 27 | " Dear Miss Adeane , " and once again she saw that unpleasant gleam of white teeth against his dark face . |
| 28 | On landing we saw that small flowers and dying orchids line the rubble road , but the landscape was dominated by huge folds of dark grey rocks . |
| 29 | In section 4.1.1 we saw that one of the reasons for building society success was their ability to attract deposits , comparatively cheaply . |
| 30 | As George and I were ‘ the guards ’ we saw that all children were supervised and that all passed muster on the way in . |