Example sentences of "and [pron] saw [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After some hours the storm passed , and I saw land to the south . |
| 2 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 3 | I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze . |
| 4 | Then she coughed , and I saw fear in her face . |
| 5 | ‘ I heard a big bang and I saw smoke coming out . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , Mrs Tuckett spotted me and I saw recognition click into place in her mind before I had to stand up and do my bit . |
| 7 | Lamarckism was part of a rival world view , which stressed the ability of living things to transcend material limitations and which saw Nature as a harmonious whole rather than a scene of constant struggle . |
| 8 | A seminal and key figure , at least in American education , has been Dewey , who was recommending in 1916 that schools should be organised as miniature democracies , and who saw education as a preparation for citizenship in a democratic society ( Dewey , 1916 ) . |
| 9 | Charles Lyell was a student of William Buckland who taught that " Geology is the efficient auxiliary and handmaid of religion " and who saw evidence everywhere of " direct intervention by a divine creator " , of a " creative power transcending the operation of known laws of nature " . |
| 10 | He knelt beside her and she saw concern flash across his features . |
| 11 | And she saw horror itself . |
| 12 | She kept her eyes lowered when Feargal stood to speak , because if he glanced at her , and she saw contempt in his eyes , she would probably lose her temper , and that would n't be fair , not on Terry 's day . |
| 13 | And he saw El-ahrairah 's bottom sticking out of the hole and the sand flying out in showers as the digging went on . |
| 14 | Every time his plane touched down at Nice airport and he saw palm trees and tanned porters in white , short-sleeved shirts , Adam enjoyed afresh the glamour of a life where one stepped on to a plane in bleak winter weather and shortly afterwards stepped off in warm sunshine . |
| 15 | Newcastle Emlyn Castle was built in approximately 1240 within a loop on the River Teifi and it saw action in 1648 when it was blown up by Cromwell 's men . |