Example sentences of "saw [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , left to themselves , many of the farmers who were between 45–64 years of age and had little formal training , saw little benefit to themselves from attendance at training courses . |
| 2 | He seems to have been content with his wife , though he saw little enough of her in the years which followed . |
| 3 | I saw little actually changing hands , apart from a pedigree pup and a painting . |
| 4 | Waking very cold and aching , Perdita saw little red flames flickering across the great blue arch of sky and thought for a terrified second that she was in the middle of a forest fire . |
| 5 | A St Andrew 's crowd of only 10,614 saw little Louie Donowa hammer the winner with a rasping ninth minute volley from 18 yards . |
| 6 | Of João , she saw little . |
| 7 | The nearest driver to Clark capable of given an eye witness account was Robin Widdows ( GB ) in a McLaren-Ford , but he saw little , except the blur in the distance of Clark 's vehicle leaving the track . |
| 8 | Professor Hoskins saw little in the modern development of the English landscape that filled him with pleasure and one has great sympathy for his feelings . |
| 9 | While it was aware of the threat of a general strike of seamen in May 1911 , it saw little support for this outside the United Kingdom and the United States , where Andrew Furuseth , president of the International Seamen 's Union and a close ally of Wilson 's , had taken a leading part in the agitation for an international dispute . |
| 10 | Nobody ever saw little Jack Toop or Gabriel-Ernest again . |
| 11 | Of Glenelg they saw little ; after breakfast on Thursday , 2 September , having parted company with their guides John Hay and Laughland Vass , they walked down to the shore and were ferried to Skye . |
| 12 | On this leg of the patrol it was mostly long steams southward with a few breaks for routine rummage , and we saw little in the way of oil related activity . |
| 13 | The JDA annual report of 1989 saw little change in the Soviet military posture in the Far East and its potential threat to Japan , despite President Gorbachev 's announcement earlier in the year that its forces stationed in the Far East would be cut by 120,000 [ see p. 36642 ] . |
| 14 | We stopped briefly at Recife ( which is quite near the equator ) and Rio de Janeiro before coming to Sao Paulo airport , but it was night time at Recife , and it was early morning with an overcast sky at Rio , so I saw little . |
| 15 | For the first time , Britain saw properly constructed roads built with military precision — Watling Street , Foss Way , Icknield Street and Ermin Way . |
| 16 | With as much dignity as she could muster Sophie stood up , and as he came from behind his desk to open the door she saw thankfully that there was no one in the surgery . |
| 17 | We saw dead volcanic lakes , grey under the grey sky . |
| 18 | So Eliot wrote in 1926 when for him the poet whose ‘ horrified eyes ’ saw most clearly the ‘ chasm between the real and the ideal ’ was Baudelaire . |
| 19 | She was immobile , cruelly transfixed , but in the very moment of immobility she saw most clearly a time when such moments need not be . |
| 20 | Gladstone saw most political questions as involving morality in some form or another . |
| 21 | My other half also told me that she saw somewhere ( I ca nt remember ) on the weekend that Leeds have offered 1Million for Bardsley ( QPR ) . |
| 22 | Well I suppose it 's not far to go home for a well it 'd be nice if we saw somewhere that was nice . |
| 23 | Looking over the heads of the children at the end of this tale , I saw slowly coming towards us , a large brown spiky thing as big as a room , with a dozen legs walking slowly and carefully under it . |
| 24 | But whatever lit it was not the moon , for this Stephen now saw slowly rising out of clusters of cloud on the rim of the moor , a reddish , mottled orb like the ghost of that sun . |
| 25 | All of the migrants saw locally provided courses as attractive . |
| 26 | He was like the bloke who you saw right through the film overseeing the whole operation , just standing there sticking little pins into a map . |
| 27 | Jamila saw right through old Charlie : she said there was iron ambition under the crushed-velvet idealism which was still the style of the age . |
| 28 | You saw right down to the Goya funeral grin |
| 29 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
| 30 | Unable to accept concessions in negotiation , Law now saw much the same deal offered in public by the Liberals themselves , when Asquith announced an Amending Bill to satisfy Ulster 's fears of Home Rule with a period of exclusion . |