Example sentences of "saw [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite unable to stop herself , she too reached out to stroke the satin-softness of his skin , her eyes darkening as she saw the many bruises that came from trying to control the incredibly fast cars that flew so low and hard round the Grand Prix circuits . |
| 2 | An Irish audience saw the All Blacks for the first time when they trained at Donnybrook on Monday , and the first impression of Mick Quinn , the former international fly-half , was : ‘ The omens are not good . |
| 3 | But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it . |
| 4 | Tim inspected Oliver and saw the same accusation . |
| 5 | Later , of course , I saw the same look on other men 's faces — ‘ |
| 6 | And then he saw the same look of horror on Jimmy 's face as he pulled him roughly back . |
| 7 | I saw the same look on a fellow who died |
| 8 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 9 | Isabel saw the same shock replace the ferocity in fitzAlan 's face a second before his gaze flashed to a point beyond her . |
| 10 | Half an hour after leaving camp , I saw the same lorry , pulled off the road beside a derelict shack . |
| 11 | They never saw the same person twice , were frightened and worried about making fools of themselves or showing their ignorance . ’ |
| 12 | And then I leaned up to look down into your face , and saw the same vulnerability echoed there , your eyes almost purple , dazed , uncomprehending , and I knew then that I could n't let you go . |
| 13 | On his third voyage , from Montevideo , Smith saw the same point again on 15 October 1819 , as well as Desolation Island . |
| 14 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 15 | But I was pus pushing and p pulling of course I never saw the same doctor twice . |
| 16 | John Calambokidis , who runs the non-profit marine-mammal organisation Cascadia Research , based in nearby Olympia , says that 1991 was the year that his team saw the most whales come in to Puget Sound , and stay the longest . |
| 17 | In the period 1951–64 , of all the policy areas with which this book is concerned , it was probably education that saw the most innovation . |
| 18 | Then she saw a little glass table with three legs , and on the top of it was a very small gold key . |
| 19 | Soon she saw a little glass box near her on the floor . |
| 20 | They saw a few hares , two of which the tracker managed to shoot for the pot , and there were buzzards overhead sometimes , but that was all . |
| 21 | The launch day saw a few teething problems . |
| 22 | He flicked his hand and I thought I saw a few spots of red appear on the shiny white tile beside me . |
| 23 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
| 24 | They saw a few workmen on bicycles , and perhaps four cars ; and that was all . |
| 25 | and she said David said he saw a few snow flakes . |
| 26 | I saw a few sort of puzzled looks when |
| 27 | The good , the bad , the criminal , the religious Nicodemus that we saw a few weeks ago , all are sinners . |
| 28 | Just as we saw a few weeks ago Zaccheus was , er , between him being up the tree and hitting the ground , that man was converted . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw no such thing . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You saw no such thing ! ’ |