Example sentences of "i saw a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was an effect of the screen , but I thought I saw a flush rise on her throat . |
| 2 | Anyone want to come ? ’ or , ‘ I saw a fallen branch over the road this morning . |
| 3 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 4 | All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals . |
| 5 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 6 | I saw a haughty little hedgehog and I was hooked . |
| 7 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
| 8 | Eddie Thorning and I saw a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor , and make money by gaining competitive advantage through an oil-and-parts offer to workshops and petrol stations . ’ |
| 9 | Let me leave you there for the moment with my views of high morale as I saw it , and I saw a great deal of it during my constant circuit within the Command . |
| 10 | I was beginning to feel suspicious about my room , but when he opened a door with a key and turned on the light I saw a small clean room with a bed , a table and a chair . |
| 11 | As I turned away I saw a small patch of khaki material caught on the very top of the wire . |
| 12 | After the service I saw a small fishing boat had just returned and was beginning to unload . |
| 13 | I saw a small round room just for a second . |
| 14 | Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire . |
| 15 | As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky . |
| 16 | Er yes I saw a small erm Afro-Caribbean child erm near the bed , whereabouts he was I I I I 'm not sure but it was near the bed . |
| 17 | I saw a red-haired man jump down from one of the branches as if he , too , was sickening of the scene and was preparing to leave . |
| 18 | Finally , I saw a young woman . |
| 19 | ‘ I saw a young girl who was lying on the side of the road . |
| 20 | LAST week on a bus I saw a young mother spank her little boy when he said the F-word . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw a young woman leaving as I arrived , rather narrow face , nice clothes , looking cross . ’ |
| 22 | On another campus , I saw a young woman crying uncontrollably . |
| 23 | One day as I was travelling , I saw a young girl running along the side of a river . |
| 24 | For a moment I knew genuine fear and then , as it came into the light , I saw a young woman , quite small and wearing a black beret and soaked raincoat . |
| 25 | Many years ago , at a race relations meeting held in the church hall of a Black church in the American South , I saw a striking picture of the head and shoulders of a Black man on the cross , simply called ‘ Black Christ ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ … and such jams with the traffic , ’ Lionel was saying , ‘ I saw a fellow walk along the tops of the cabs in Berkeley Street . |
| 27 | I saw a broad blade flash dimly , heard it strike the sleeve of the monster 's greatcoat . |
| 28 | Through the gap between two lockers which was the ‘ door ’ , I saw a bored German private wandering dutifully down the corridor . |
| 29 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 30 | On one final sweep with the binoculars , however , I saw a clearer patch of water to the south , with the waves breaking further inshore , some of which were rolling clear up to the low rocky cliffs . |