Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] saw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I saw behind Stapleton 's smiling face a heart with murder in it . |
| 2 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 3 | The less they saw of each other , Constance had reluctantly accepted over the years , the better friends she and her mother were . |
| 4 | Thus I saw at first hand the developing excitement within the scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon . |
| 5 | Nevertheless we saw in the context of rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) that there are some cases ( summarized by curve A of Fig. 17.6 ) for which there are marked similarities between the unstable modes and the observed motion when the critical condition is just exceeded . |
| 6 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The more I saw of … the doings of an official generation slightly older than my own ’ , he writes , ‘ the more it was borne in upon me that the genuine image of the diplomatic process is hardly to be recaptured in historical narrative unless the lens through which it is viewed is a sharp one and the human texture of which it consists becomes visible in considerable detail . ’ |
| 8 | The more she saw of the Redmonds the more she liked them , particularly Sarah 's grandmother . |
| 9 | The more she saw of Alain 's mother and the more she breathed in the atmosphere of this house , the more she felt outside it all , an intruder who was here to rock the peace of the place , to alter their lives . |
| 10 | The more she saw of Felipe , the more she wanted to be near him . |
| 11 | Who said Caroline had got the one like you saw in the shop ? |
| 12 | He understood that Gandhi 's challenge was not primarily to his sanctity but to his power , and once he saw on what ground he might meet his antagonist he , like Gandhi , but with more evident calculation , unhesitatingly employed that sanctity in the service of power . |
| 13 | Later I saw in the mirror that the shape of his palm and fingers was etched in dark red on my skin . |
| 14 | Ages ago I saw on television someone using a special space with a lever action behind it , to help people with bad backs to be able to dig the garden . |
| 15 | Some years ago I saw on TV a most splendid series by a marvellous writer called Brian Clark . |
| 16 | And then she saw with a shock that Jan was back . |
| 17 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 18 | The dark eyes flashed for a second , then she saw by my face that it was n't a crack . |
| 19 | Indeed we saw in the last chapter that a contract for the sale of future goods is quite possible . |
| 20 | He looked at her and frowned as though he would make a denial and then he saw from her face that she knew the truth . |
| 21 | Then he saw from the sudden anxiety on the parson 's face that this too might be misunderstood . |
| 22 | As I turned forward again I saw with alarm that we were running into apparently broken water . |
| 23 | She loved Sharpe , yet she saw in her lover the embodiment of those ghouls who had been used to scare her into childhood obedience . |
| 24 | Briefly she saw in her mind a slender girl walking the shore , beating her hands one against the other in bitter rebellion . |
| 25 | Yet we saw in Chapter 1 that plants are the source of almost all life on Earth ; they alone can create the organic molecules which the animals consume . |
| 26 | It was very uncomfortable until firstly I started getting some of the programmes I had commissioned back , and secondly I saw on screen that some of them were going to be among the first successes of the Channel . |