Example sentences of "[pron] saw [prep] the [noun] " 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 | There was a beautiful avenue of mimosas I saw at the Gezira when we were walking round . |
| 8 | But like what I saw of the women , they looked alright to me . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | From what I saw of the match he played well . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 14 | It was already nearly dusk and I supposed the Dutch people whom I saw on the pavements and on bicycles were hurrying to get home before the curfew . |
| 15 | She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way . |
| 16 | Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’ |
| 17 | I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning . |
| 18 | He assures me we both , from what he and I saw on the spot , can go beyond what Jerome himself knows . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 21 | I saw from the clock that Ben had run 10.03 , not as fast as Carl , who had gone below ten seconds again . |
| 22 | In fact , I saw from the station clock that I had timed my arrival just about perfectly . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | What I saw from the air was a new runway , freshly mown and very inviting . |
| 25 | When I saw from the papers that Miss Ella Shields , the original Burlington Bertie from Bow , was to appear for a week at the Pantages Theatre on Hastings Street , I made it a point of seeing the show . |
| 26 | I saw from the papers some time back that you were acting again ; I 've followed every turn of your fortunes , I can tell yer . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nobody I saw in the streets ever looked up . |
| 29 | But I saw in the newspaper that , in three weeks , the new young King , Rudolf the Fifth , would have his coronation . |
| 30 | ‘ I was going to , but I saw in the newspaper the next morning that he had died . ’ |