Example sentences of "[pron] saw [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | And many more died from accidents ; I saw a hundred children die from fire . |
2 | He flicked his hand and I thought I saw a few spots of red appear on the shiny white tile beside me . |
3 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
4 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
5 | ‘ I saw the official figures released last week by the Ministry of Information . |
6 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
7 | ‘ I saw the other riders up beside me and outbraked them . |
8 | I did n't realise she was getting married in the church opposite the shop until I saw the life-size versions of the figures appear one morning — including this labrador in a pink dress ! ’ |
9 | I saw the great buses navigate |
10 | There was a lock of Caroline 's hair to be cut , and plaster casts of her face and hands to be taken : ‘ I saw the great paws of those louts touching her and covering her face with plaster . |
11 | I saw the frightened horses on the edge of a steep drop . |
12 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
13 | Now I saw the full implications of the concessions I had made , and how compromised I had become . |
14 | I saw the tissue-typing results when Dr Whitfield came round yesterday . |
15 | I had half-managed to con a colleague in the Press-box into believing that the Brewongle Stand was named after an old left-arm spinner from Parramatta named Bluey Brewongle when I saw the dark-green uniforms emerging from the pavilion , and the emotions crowded in with a sudden impact . |
16 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
17 | The more I looked at different societies , the more I saw the little traps lurking in the small print … |
18 | I saw the three goals but was n't very impressed overall . |
19 | But those gloomy musings ended abruptly when the skim dropped me near the pod was berthed — and when I saw the shadowy figures around it . |
20 | I saw the massed coils of barbed wire , the tall wooden towers and the muffled sentries that we had passed on the night I arrived . |
21 | 1981 — the year which saw the attempted assassinations of President Reagan and Pope John Paul . |
22 | This situation changed radically as a result of the ‘ merger boom ’ of the period 1957–69 , which saw the national brewers ' share of net output rise from 18 per cent to 64 per cent . |
23 | This year , which must prove that we dreamed it up , it was the THIRD Monday which saw the longest queues of all — to see John McEnroe and Michael Stich win the final set of the men 's doubles . |
24 | And as she stood , she saw a dozen men enter the room to stand in a semicircle around her . |
25 | She saw the first researchers , long-dead now but their essence still lived , frozen in the flow of electrons . |
26 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
27 | She said she saw the two defendants tormenting an elderly woman by prodding her from behind . |
28 | She saw the two women lying in their beds . |
29 | She looked up eagerly at the sound of footsteps , but then , as she saw the two women , with an almost human expression of disappointment she turned her head away and with a heavy sigh lowered her head to her paws . |
30 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |