Example sentences of "i saw [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
2 | I think she really took a fancy to you — talked about you all the time when I saw her last summer . |
3 | Er just before the war when I saw her last . |
4 | Do you know she 's now , she was quite cuddly , she was fat in the pregnancy when I saw her last time . |
5 | mm , so then I saw her last Tuesday or whenever she told me |
6 | In the it 's only just till the rep comes he said , when I saw her last week she said like you know , he had n't been if he |
7 | Do you know who I might see , I might see that girl , Michelle who lived 'cos I saw her last Thursday , she was in the classroom next to us . |
8 | He did play really well in the Championship year but any time I saw him last year he seemed to be nervous on the ball , surely not a good thing for a Centre Half . |
9 | So somehow it was reassuring to find he had a sore throat when I saw him last Thursday . |
10 | I heard something about this he said , er I was on holidays all last week he said but erm it 's bloody lies cos I saw him last week . |
11 | I saw my first tuberous begonias on the Blackmore and Langdon stand at Chelsea many years ago . |
12 | I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being . |
13 | I saw my first queenie , chomping through a loch , and discovered that laughing underwater is a bad idea . |
14 | I saw my first gannet , plunging into mirror-calm waters , snow-white , yellow-tipped bill ready to pounce on its prey sixty feet below the surface . |
15 | When I saw my first period I was scared to death . |
16 | I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know … |
17 | As I walked back into the Gendarmerie the following afternoon , I saw my first legionnaire . |
18 | Driving up to the gates of the camp , I saw my first legionnaire in parade uniform ; he was wearing a white képi , a green tie and blue cummerbund . |
19 | Crossbills and red squirrels showered stripped pinecones around me , and I saw my first crested tits , trapezing in the canopy . |
20 | Even today , decades after I saw my first such microscope slide , I still think them extravagantly beautiful and can easily get lost in contemplation of the cellular thicket the microscope reveals , made the more intriguing by the curious , almost three-dimensional effect the stain gives ; as it brings into vision only a few of the total population of the neurons present , the cells seem to stand out like trees in a winter mist ( Figure 10.6 ) . |
21 | He says ; I saw my first Fairport show in 1970 and I never forgot it . |
22 | On subsequent journeys I would always try to be the first to see it and shout , ‘ There it is , I saw it first ! ’ |
23 | I admit that I prefer the longer film , but that may be because I saw it first . |
24 | I saw it first time last week and it were great ! |
25 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
26 | I saw it last night . |
27 | Yeah , I saw it last week here as well ! lo , lot shorter otherwise he 'll be complaining his ears are growing too high ! |
28 | ‘ It 's a good job I saw you first , then ! ’ |
29 | I saw you last night , though you chose not to see me , and I can not understand your casual attitude to life . |
30 | ‘ I saw you last Sunday . ’ |