Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely saw the learning supported by the practical work the textbooks themselves suggest . |
| 2 | ‘ I only saw the driver but there could have been others inside the wagon . ’ |
| 3 | Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem . |
| 4 | ‘ In the hope of following them to the base , since we do n't know where the land entrance is — I only saw the inlet that allows ships in . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Because I only saw the car ? ’ |
| 6 | as a last sort of erm two days of the sale or something , they have their special offer next week or fifty percent off everything or something I feel sorry for these places really , that do you know it 's funny I only saw the car immediately in front of this grey one in there must of been a dip there because there 's two cars in front of me |
| 7 | I looked at the altar ; in the orange glow of the valves , I suddenly saw the vision , the nightmare of the well-shaft — there was the huge seated figure , and , apparently , sitting on its lap , the dark shrivelled form of the Virgin . |
| 8 | I just saw the bit where he was on about the erm short sighted hedgehog . |
| 9 | ‘ I just saw the knife heading for my face . |
| 10 | Well I du n no , I just saw the filling . |
| 11 | When I finally saw the doctor and I said , ‘ Can I have something ? ’ he said , ‘ What for ? ’ |
| 12 | I always saw the woman and there was , she knew me and er there was no problem . |
| 13 | I also saw the statue of Sir Winston Churchill outside the Houses of Parliament and the monument to Edith Cavell ; I have a book about her life . |
| 14 | But I also saw the blood and noise of war . |
| 15 | ‘ I later saw the screen test , ’ commented Dustin . |
| 16 | I even saw the bed — ’ She swallowed hard . |
| 17 | ‘ Entering the body shop , I speedily saw the beginning of the erection of the coach itself . |
| 18 | Well I never saw the sea on fire but f when we wen went into the sea I mean we were directly beneath the platform , and at that stage I mean the whole platform was on fire . |
| 19 | I did n't actually see I n I never saw the door . |
| 20 | ‘ I never saw the outline of a plane , just this incredible ball of flame . |
| 21 | ‘ I never saw the palazzo . |
| 22 | I never saw the broadcast , but it seemed to be a clear attempt to discredit me . |
| 23 | I never saw the mail robber , though Tom played with his children — and caught nits from them , to Nonni 's horror — and I got to know his sister , Elsie : a thin woman with stiff , blonde hair who was never without a cigarette stuck to the corner of her mouth . |
| 24 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 25 | I too saw the quote about ‘ still in the world cup , still an england manager ’ etc . |
| 26 | In the summer of 1820 , after a visit to Russia the previous year to promote his recently translated New Testament , which eventually saw the light of day in 1847 , Vuk again approached Miloš , this time offering to teach the ruler to read and write . |
| 27 | The formation of the Film Society in 1925 , which aimed to make British filmmakers aware of the creative possibilities of the medium by screening the most artistically adventurous films being made in Russia , Germany and elsewhere , had caused some confusion in the commercial film industry , which rightly saw the Film Society 's platform as a blast against the prevailing aesthetic orthodoxies . |
| 28 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |
| 29 | The nauseating ‘ documentary ’ film , Der ewige Jude ( The Eternal Jew ) , receiving its première in November 1940 — a year which also saw the production of two other anti-Semitic films , Jud Süss and Die Rothschilds , in a concentrated attempt to ‘ educate ’ German opinion and harden attitudes on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ — provides an illustration of the way in which propaganda was now directly linking Hitler himself with the need for a most radical ‘ solution ’ to the ‘ Jewish problem ’ . |
| 30 | On Beorhtric 's death in 802 , which also saw the repulse of a Mercian invasion under Ealdorman Æthelmund , it probably passed out of Cenwulf 's orbit . |