Example sentences of "[pron] saw [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’ |
| 2 | I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech . |
| 3 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 4 | And there he was , I went to look and I saw at the end there , a big pile of erm earth fresh earth you know . |
| 5 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 6 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 7 | Stooping , what I saw of the valley were glimpses of a richly farmed landscape and a dark brown river , all imbued with a hazy crepuscular Tuscan light . |
| 8 | From what I saw of the match he played well . |
| 9 | From the little I saw of the game Ipswich seemed quite content with standing inside their own penalty box and only closing down people when they got within 2 yards of it . |
| 10 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 11 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 12 | She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way . |
| 13 | Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’ |
| 14 | I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning . |
| 15 | He assures me we both , from what he and I saw on the spot , can go beyond what Jerome himself knows . ’ |
| 16 | A belated attempt at abdomen-straining brought it swimming back into fuzzy focus , but that dial was all I saw during the remainder of an interminable fast-jet loop . |
| 17 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 18 | I saw from the clock that Ben had run 10.03 , not as fast as Carl , who had gone below ten seconds again . |
| 19 | In fact , I saw from the station clock that I had timed my arrival just about perfectly . |
| 20 | I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to . |
| 21 | What I saw from the air was a new runway , freshly mown and very inviting . |
| 22 | Some of the bogs I saw from the train window had been ‘ harvested ’ , and rows of beehive-shaped ‘ peat cocks ’ stood like haycocks , awaiting collection . |
| 23 | But I saw in the newspaper that , in three weeks , the new young King , Rudolf the Fifth , would have his coronation . |
| 24 | ‘ I was going to , but I saw in the newspaper the next morning that he had died . ’ |
| 25 | erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another . |
| 26 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 27 | Later I saw in the mirror that the shape of his palm and fingers was etched in dark red on my skin . |
| 28 | While I was shaving , peacefully surveying my baggy eyes , thick lips hinting at a recent cold sore , and ever-deepening wrinkles , I saw in the mirror something monstrous appear around the side of my grey hair . |
| 29 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 30 | Melissa turned out to be a small , jolly woman , maybe a teacher or a social worker , and the only woman I saw in the camp who wore a wedding ring . |