Example sentences of "[pron] saw a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was an effect of the screen , but I thought I saw a flush rise on her throat . |
| 2 | Anyone want to come ? ’ or , ‘ I saw a fallen branch over the road this morning . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire . |
| 10 | As I turned away I saw a small patch of khaki material caught on the very top of the wire . |
| 11 | After the service I saw a small fishing boat had just returned and was beginning to unload . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw a young girl who was lying on the side of the road . |
| 14 | One day as I was travelling , I saw a young girl running along the side of a river . |
| 15 | LAST week on a bus I saw a young mother spank her little boy when he said the F-word . |
| 16 | Finally , I saw a young woman . |
| 17 | ‘ I saw a young woman leaving as I arrived , rather narrow face , nice clothes , looking cross . ’ |
| 18 | On another campus , I saw a young woman crying uncontrollably . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ … and such jams with the traffic , ’ Lionel was saying , ‘ I saw a fellow walk along the tops of the cabs in Berkeley Street . |
| 22 | I saw a broad blade flash dimly , heard it strike the sleeve of the monster 's greatcoat . |
| 23 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 24 | On one final sweep with the binoculars , however , I saw a clearer patch of water to the south , with the waves breaking further inshore , some of which were rolling clear up to the low rocky cliffs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ When I was an adolescent , I saw a similar scene in a movie . |
| 27 | I saw a spanking stagee emerge and take the road that led to Chamonix , its four horses stepping high . |
| 28 | I was watching the Granada Sport Preview on Friday night with Elton Welsby , sitting half asleep through all the usual crap about City being in crisis , United going to win everything , etc , when all of a sudden I saw a scandinavian player being interviewed about his being signed to Oldham ( I think ) . |
| 29 | And many more died from accidents ; I saw a hundred children die from fire . |
| 30 | ‘ The front door wuz open , Mr Oakley , and I saw a definite chink of light from where I wuz situated . ’ |