Example sentences of "saw [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that Turner by 1833 was painting trees unknown to any botanist ; probably he painted them because he saw them that way ; and indeed with the help of a lens the lecturer could turn a picture of a common tree into a Turner tree for the audience to see for themselves . |
| 2 | Joseph saw them one minute to port , then the next minute to starboard , and once they even appeared dead astern as the river turned back on itself . |
| 3 | Nick saw them one day when the door was left open , sitting with their elbows on the table and chewing their chops in their fingers . |
| 4 | I saw them all war in her face . |
| 5 | His face was moving a little , twitching by one eye , but he saw them this time . |
| 6 | I saw them this morning . |
| 7 | Peter saw me last night after you 'd left . |
| 8 | Number one husband saw my fainted state and raced to Film Knights for the antidote — Leslie Neilson in The Naked Gun . |
| 9 | As I walked back into the Gendarmerie the following afternoon , I saw my first legionnaire . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When I saw my first period I was scared to death . |
| 12 | He says ; I saw my first Fairport show in 1970 and I never forgot it . |
| 13 | I saw my first queenie , chomping through a loch , and discovered that laughing underwater is a bad idea . |
| 14 | I also saw my first fulmar , sweeping the cliffs on stiff wings , endlessly gliding with miraculous ease ; hen harrier haunted the moorlands ; golden plover and curlew cried plaintively from banks of peat ; statuesque heron stared balefully into shallow pools ; widow-black cormorant dried their dark wings on seaweed-covered rocks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | It 's such ages since I saw my foster family and … and friends , but I 'll be back , Cora-Beth , you can be sure of that . |
| 18 | We arrived home at last on April 13th , 1702 , and I saw my dear wife and children again . |
| 19 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 20 | The servants smiled when they saw my strange appearance . |
| 21 | The servants smiled when they saw my strange appearance . |
| 22 | He saw my angry glance at Benjamin . |
| 23 | One day I saw my own face in the water of the river . |
| 24 | One day I saw my own face in the water of the river . |
| 25 | She saw my next question coming . |
| 26 | I had n't even dared go near Furnival Gardens since I saw my old man for the second rime . |
| 27 | He was watching her face intently , and a dark gleam of unholy amusement returned as he saw her cynical disbelief . |
| 28 | She saw her long hair floating like seaweed upon the waves . |
| 29 | I saw her long throat vibrate as she muttered the words . |
| 30 | 1992 saw her first solo show , I Will Always be Here , commissioned by the Ikon Gallery , Birmingham . |