Example sentences of "saw [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It should be emphasised that participating practitioners were asked to return details of all patients on their lists who experienced an attack and not simply those whom they saw personally . |
| 32 | But we saw enough to be grateful that so much is being done to protect and conserve this rich heritage and , driving on lead-free petrol , we felt comfortable knowing that we were doing our bit . |
| 33 | But we saw enough to be grateful that so much is being done to protect and conserve this rich heritage and , driving on lead free petrol , we felt comfortable knowing that we were doing our bit . |
| 34 | ‘ But we saw enough . |
| 35 | Even in the dark I saw enough . |
| 36 | I do n't think it solves anything — it 's only twenty-one years since the last lot and I saw enough in Spain to make me hate it . |
| 37 | ‘ I did n't hang about long , but I saw enough to convince me that all that rubbish about Melanie 's frigidity was pure invention on your part . ’ |
| 38 | We saw less and less of each other and fought like tigers when we did spend time together . |
| 39 | She saw less and less of Ben , and missed him in a slightly sad , unfocused kind of way . |
| 40 | ‘ We saw terribly old men , some paper-thin , too terrified to speak . ’ |
| 41 | Increasingly , threats come from outside Europe — as we saw so clearly in the Gulf . |
| 42 | I saw so many of these earnest young hopefuls that one day , I 'm sure , we will be invaded by battalions of these wunderkinder descending by parachutes above the Royal Festival Hall , violins strapped to their backs . |
| 43 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 44 | We saw so many of these bomber boys pass before us — we got to know them slightly and then they were gone . |
| 45 | Anton stood by the window , listening ; looking out , down ; the street was full of children ; you never saw so many children , boisterous ragamuffins , as on a tenement street on a hot summer night . |
| 46 | Unlike so many of the home-based flat earth society type of observers who saw so clearly — from 13,000 miles away — what happened in New Zealand , Murphy does not indict the IRFU . |
| 47 | After all , Liza saw so few people of her own age . |
| 48 | The arched terracotta mount was chosen to remind me of the colour and style of Portuguese houses , and the frame was another easy choice because we saw so much dark wood furniture there . |
| 49 | He saw so much and so keenly , his vision enhanced by his occulobe . |
| 50 | We saw so little of each other , and I suppose it was too late . |
| 51 | Despite his reputation and the general theory that doctors were impervious to tears because they saw so many shed , I had noticed that the way our men reacted to weeping females depended mainly on their ages . |
| 52 | Though we need not go along all the way with this characteristically provocative view ( and even Keller found ‘ a few playable exceptions ’ ) , I confess to wondering whether this is not one of those issues motivated less by musical need than by the pious opportunism of which we saw so much in the bicentenary year . |
| 53 | Experience seems to evolve from youth in a way not measured by the calendar : more like a river than a canal — which is what we knew but never saw so clearly as in these photographs . |
| 54 | There were 200,000 people living in the City of London — I never saw so many people before in my life . |
| 55 | However , it was the dynamism and sheer energy of the man which his colleagues saw so often . |
| 56 | Having surreptitiously placed the man 's coat in the room , she says : ( " I never saw so luxurious a bed ! |
| 57 | The bourgeois world was haunted by sex , but not necessarily sexual promiscuity : the characteristic nemesis of the bourgeois folk-myth , as the novelist Thomas Mann saw so clearly , followed a single fall from grace , like the tertiary syphilis of the composer Adrian Leverkuehn in Dr Faustus . |
| 58 | I felt guilty — after all , they had trained me — but in the end I saw so many of my friends making the move , I saw them working in better conditions , earning so much more for fewer hours , ’ she grimaced , ‘ in the end I decided I 'd be crazy not to join them . ’ |
| 59 | Actually I saw so many women saw quite a few women up there . |
| 60 | Through the leaves , I saw Long John Silver and another of the crew talking together . |