Example sentences of "saw [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed . |
| 2 | he never saw them at all , no . |
| 3 | You can see furniture , you can see old houses , Arthur Neagus going round all these old houses , you can see a lot of things now , that the normal public never would see in the , the ordinary man in the street probably never saw them at one time , but I think this must of made a difference to people . |
| 4 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 5 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 6 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 7 | Forty-five per cent of the first group ( i.e. 45 per cent of 50 per cent ) thought them to be a true measure of ability and a third saw them as useful indicators of attitude . |
| 8 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 9 | They saw them as fertile slopes on which to grow tea and coffee , as well as a cool and pleasant place to live when it became uncomfortably hot nearer sea level . |
| 10 | Coming back to the family after being away for so long except for short periods , Joe saw them with new eyes . |
| 11 | Jim Pickering was one of the four : ‘ I was Red 2 in company with Red I and Green Section when I saw a Ju88 engaged by A.A. about 1,000 feet above us … he saw me at this height and turned in a circle onto my tail . |
| 12 | ‘ You remember how angry Alain became when he saw me with that book ? ’ she said . |
| 13 | Kathleen herself saw nothing at all they could , or should , try to do . |
| 14 | Daniel Defoe journeyed this way in 1724 and when he passed through Settle , he noted : ‘ … we saw nothing but high mountains , which had a terrible aspect . ’ |
| 15 | He was as sensitive about his body as a proud owner of its pet 's and was perpetually asking her to look inside his ear to see whether there was something amiss — she saw nothing but pink perfection — and wondering about the freshness of his lungs in the atmosphere — she assumed that they were like his ears — and surveying the immaculateness , the flatness of his belly in her long wall mirror with its carved , wooden frame . |
| 16 | He bent her supple body back ; she took one look over her shoulder and saw nothing but fast-flowing black water . |
| 17 | And our love does not depend on anything , though for years we saw nothing of each other , still we should love . |
| 18 | On his second voyage , in the winter ( May–June 1819 ) , he saw nothing of New South Shetland . |
| 19 | I never saw nothing of that Miss Baird , only Mr Forbes standing there like he says , and Jessie right beside him . ’ |
| 20 | This was certainly a strange case , but he had not known the Pitts and he saw plenty of messy deaths . |
| 21 | Without a shadow of doubt Steven Morrissey always saw himself in that light . |
| 22 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 23 | Peter , unable to bear such a pedestrian first appointment ( he saw himself in those days as a fervent worker priest ) , chafed almost from their arrival . |
| 24 | He just saw you as cheap labour and that was the end of it . |
| 25 | But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He telephoned to tell me about it … he was very angry when he saw you with that book and I could tell that he had said things he should not have said . ’ |
| 27 | On my way back downstairs I saw you in one of the bedrooms with Melanie . ’ |
| 28 | But I have loved you ever since I first saw you in this house . |
| 29 | But the others saw none of this : they were all in bed . |
| 30 | I saw something in that hall tonight which I have kept secret . |