Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] saw [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an instant I saw a different woman : not the sour , bored old creature I had grown to expect , but someone strong and humorous . |
| 2 | Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van . |
| 3 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 4 | Several times I saw a big bull , sometimes even two together . |
| 5 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | When we were going out of the theatre at the end of the pantomime I saw a little lad crawl under the seat and put it in his pocket . |
| 8 | I was beginning to feel suspicious about my room , but when he opened a door with a key and turned on the light I saw a small clean room with a bed , a table and a chair . |
| 9 | Farther down the coast we saw a huge kittiwake colony on an inland cliff and went to investigate . |
| 10 | Not that hooligan we saw the other day the one messing about in the dodgems . ’ |
| 11 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 12 | In the woman 's eyes he saw a like recognition and knew his senses did not deceive him . |
| 13 | Cutting across country in the morning light he saw the Japanese transports moored peacefully in Dili harbour . |
| 14 | One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled . |
| 15 | Things seemed quiet enough , but it was an uneasy calm and in the late afternoon , there was a crump of a bomb and when I looked out of the window I saw a black pall of smoke in the distance . |
| 16 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 17 | When he plugged in — Sonic The Hedgehog I saw the fantastic graphics and nearly fainted . |
| 18 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 19 | Considering he was joining an honour roll that included his big brother John , it was somehow fitting that Patrick played the leading role in the two-hour 48-minute finale to the grand prix circuit which saw the younger McEnroe and Jim Grabb dismiss the more experienced Anders Jarryd and John Fitzgerald 7-5 , 7-6 , 5-7 , 6-3 . |
| 20 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
| 21 | In that dream they saw a new life in a humane , liberal , decent West , run by people like Douglas Hurd . |
| 22 | As the Dwarfs from Karaz a Karak marched south they saw the rising plumes of smoke in front of them . |
| 23 | Through the carved window he saw the wet branches of the evergreens , darker on the dark . |
| 24 | He sailed for Algiers in March 1943 and during the last days of the Tunisian campaign he saw a mere fortnight 's active service . |
| 25 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
| 26 | In a sort of aperture she saw a white baby hanging upside down from a nail of light . |
| 27 | Cut into the sultry gold of his skin she saw a thin white line which zigzagged down from beside his eye , along his cheekbone , to his jaw . |
| 28 | Those who defended the idea were supporters of the evolutionary hypothesis who saw the linear arrangement as the ladder by which life had ascended to the highest form , humankind . |
| 29 | Away to the right I saw the flat gleam of the loch . |
| 30 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue . |