Example sentences of "[pron] saw [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Which is why I saw no real point in pushing the human poor-little-baby bit . ’ |
2 | Erm and also because I saw no early prospect of the application coming reports . |
3 | But I saw no other way out : I did n't know if I would ever have a chance again . ’ |
4 | ‘ I saw no other way of protecting the interests of the Corosini , ’ he growled . |
5 | ‘ I wanted it ’ , he concluded the note already quoted , ‘ because I saw no other weapon then to use in the fight against unemployment . ’ |
6 | I saw no clear advantage now from 17 . |
7 | Perhaps it was an effect of the screen , but I thought I saw a flush rise on her throat . |
8 | Anyone want to come ? ’ or , ‘ I saw a fallen branch over the road this morning . |
9 | All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals . |
10 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
11 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
12 | Eddie Thorning and I saw a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor , and make money by gaining competitive advantage through an oil-and-parts offer to workshops and petrol stations . ’ |
13 | Let me leave you there for the moment with my views of high morale as I saw it , and I saw a great deal of it during my constant circuit within the Command . |
14 | As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky . |
15 | Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire . |
16 | As I turned away I saw a small patch of khaki material caught on the very top of the wire . |
17 | After the service I saw a small fishing boat had just returned and was beginning to unload . |
18 | I saw a red-haired man jump down from one of the branches as if he , too , was sickening of the scene and was preparing to leave . |
19 | ‘ I saw a young girl who was lying on the side of the road . |
20 | One day as I was travelling , I saw a young girl running along the side of a river . |
21 | LAST week on a bus I saw a young mother spank her little boy when he said the F-word . |
22 | Finally , I saw a young woman . |
23 | ‘ I saw a young woman leaving as I arrived , rather narrow face , nice clothes , looking cross . ’ |
24 | On another campus , I saw a young woman crying uncontrollably . |
25 | For a moment I knew genuine fear and then , as it came into the light , I saw a young woman , quite small and wearing a black beret and soaked raincoat . |
26 | Many years ago , at a race relations meeting held in the church hall of a Black church in the American South , I saw a striking picture of the head and shoulders of a Black man on the cross , simply called ‘ Black Christ ’ . |
27 | ‘ … and such jams with the traffic , ’ Lionel was saying , ‘ I saw a fellow walk along the tops of the cabs in Berkeley Street . |
28 | I saw a broad blade flash dimly , heard it strike the sleeve of the monster 's greatcoat . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | ‘ When I was an adolescent , I saw a similar scene in a movie . |