Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] saw the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |
| 2 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 3 | Where you saw the pantomime ? |
| 4 | This improvement came through entirely in the second half and was predominantly in the USA where we saw the beginnings of economic recovery . |
| 5 | But that 's not where we saw the red squirrel . |
| 6 | When he heard of the disappearance of Mrs Wilks , 22 , he drove back down the motorway and noted the marker post number where he saw the car . |
| 7 | One day the Works Manager and Chief Officer ( Mr Mason ) had occasion to go round the Old Road , where he saw the horses and gig tethered outside the Locomotive Inn ( now the Galleon ) . |
| 8 | The first he knew of it was a warning call from high above where he saw the angry silhouette of a golden eagle stooping . |
| 9 | He slept well that night , getting up early to climb the wet , mildewed stairs to the top of the church tower where he saw the stars clear in the skies , studying their alignment before they faded with the dawn . |
| 10 | Once I saw the I 've lost my way ! |
| 11 | The normal reason for this is that , although you saw the graphic on the page and it printed correctly on the LaserWriter you copied the publication onto a disk and sent that to the bureau . |
| 12 | Though Nick stared in bewilderment Mr Evans just said , ‘ So you saw the idiot , did you ? ’ |
| 13 | Once you saw the word " prostitution " in a church magazine and asked what it meant , and once " rape " in the newspaper . |
| 14 | Once they saw the set up they thought it was wonderful , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The year 1927 was a good year from several viewpoints , although it saw the death of Sir Anker Simmons ( knighted in 1920 ) , one of the Club 's quartet of founders . |
| 16 | Mr Gyles Brandreth , the broadcaster , won in Chester , although he saw the Tory majority cut almost five-fold to 1,101 . |
| 17 | No sooner had the women 's liberation movement moved from the sixties to the seventies than it saw the economic conditions for its demands evaporate . |
| 18 | Once he saw the fellows with white coats , that 's why he ran |
| 19 | The ‘ Let ’ rule has stood since 1880 without too much fuss and I think I might get annoyed if I saw the fifth set in a Wimbledon final decided by a serve which simply hit the net and ‘ died ’ on the receiver 's side . |
| 20 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 21 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 22 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 23 | For example , I recently came across the word ‘ homerun ’ and tried for several seconds to read it as ‘ homer-un ’ , until I saw the correct morpheme structure . |
| 24 | I intended being one of the three people to live in Oxford Street , until I saw the place . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought you were exaggerating , ’ Oliver admitted , ‘ until I saw the menace in that fellow 's eyes . ’ |
| 26 | He says : I still was n't sure about him until I saw the video of his goals . |
| 27 | until I saw the apparition |
| 28 | I parked the van in one of the perimeter car parks and walked through the campus buildings reading the graffiti until I saw the amended sign reading Stundent Onion , and one which had n't been vandalized saying simply Bar . |
| 29 | I did n't realise she was getting married in the church opposite the shop until I saw the life-size versions of the figures appear one morning — including this labrador in a pink dress ! ’ |
| 30 | No , well like I said I mean I did n't think mine had tanned me that much until I saw the photos from Alan 's wedding , I was like a nigger . |