Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The ‘ Let ’ rule has stood since 1880 without too much fuss and I think I might get annoyed if I saw the fifth set in a Wimbledon final decided by a serve which simply hit the net and ‘ died ’ on the receiver 's side . |
2 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
3 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |
4 | then I had another I had another wee problem that I 'd been , I had been to see , and it was Doctor I had been , and the doctor that I saw the last time er I had three big bruises on my back , and she |
5 | When I saw the next auberge coming up , I drew in to the side of the road , put on my raincoat , and walked along to it . |
6 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
7 | She saw the first researchers , long-dead now but their essence still lived , frozen in the flow of electrons . |
8 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
9 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
10 | JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason . |
11 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
12 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
13 | When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’ |
14 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |
15 | He saw the first group of storm-troopers in the forest to his left . |
16 | As he saw the first men fall in the ambush , Lachlan 's shipmaster yelled for his men to fall back . |
17 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
18 | Mr Clay said he saw the second article on the plane flying home . |
19 | On the bridge he saw the third officer raise his hand to his cap in a debonair salute , and she waved gaily back . |