Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] saw [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 2 | Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ . |
| 3 | Local correspondents were ‘ warning every day that the events which we saw last winter may occur again' . |
| 4 | ‘ I promise you , sir , that we shall interview everyone you saw this afternoon . |
| 5 | The assistant governor [ AG ] who I saw four days after I got into prison told me I 'd be going to Cookham Wood or Bullwood Hall in two to three weeks . |
| 6 | I bet you ca n't guess who I saw this afternoon . |
| 7 | The one I saw this week at Hillier 's Arboretum , Ampfield , near Winchester , was already on the turn , with leaves orange and scarlet amidst clusters of large red haws , much bigger than those you find on wild hawthorns . |
| 8 | Same one you saw last year . |
| 9 | One who saw both camps preparing for the talks says : ‘ It was all arranged so that Diana could stay more or less on her terms . |
| 10 | As she looked up at him she saw such tenderness , such deep love in his eyes that her own filled with tears . |
| 11 | ‘ We would ask anyone who saw these men to come forward . ’ |
| 12 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 13 | and he he saw this dike this dike and he went straight in , he |
| 14 | I tell you what I saw that coming . |
| 15 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 16 | What I saw that evening may be important when you consider what happened on the night of his death . |
| 17 | It has nothing to do with what I saw this morning . ’ |
| 18 | What you saw last night was an accident , was n't it ? |
| 19 | But if we had not had this event we would n't have had those problems.Its the issue of New Age Travellers and illegal parties that produce what you saw last night . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What we saw this evening has to be good for British tennis . ’ |
| 21 | The problem with their evolutionary sequence does not lie so much with what they say about technology as what they saw this technology as implying . |
| 22 | What he saw this time surprised him . |