Example sentences of "[pron] saw an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw one erm I saw an actual Christmas tree up in erm you know the library when you come out in the road to library onto the main road ? |
| 2 | This was the first time I saw an Islamic service and I was impressed by the unhurried , synchronized movements of the worshippers and by the sonorous rhythm of their prayers . |
| 3 | I saw an ancient lady , and a lady of very good quality , I assure you , drawn to church in her coach with six oxen ; nor was it done in frolic or humour , but mere necessity , the way being so stiff and deep [ with mud ] , that no horses could go in it . |
| 4 | I saw an elderly lady with half a lifetime of raffles behind her and half a dozen tea cosies in her drawer , winning yet another tea cosy and , smiling , handing it back to be re-raffled . |
| 5 | I saw an interesting industry in its own right which was changing and growing . |
| 6 | As I entered , I saw an unmistakable figure in front of me — Dana . |
| 7 | When I looked from his face to O's ( my eyes often followed Madame 's ) I saw an older face , one I thought had been weathered by sex and by that indefinable sorrow of O's into a quiet , strong silence . |
| 8 | I saw an excellent physiotherapist and a chiropractor who subjected me to some tests and found that the ratio between my hamstrings and my quadriceps was n't good enough . |
| 9 | If I saw an Indian girl being beaten up , I might just watch or walk away . |
| 10 | Much of his study of the often shameful encounter between the conquerors and the native Indians was hazy to me now , but the clean lines of the narrative still reverberated within me whenever I saw an Inca ashlar . |
| 11 | I saw an open shed stacked with timber , graded according to its thickness , and then , as we turned the flint gable , there was Laura crouched before the kiln in a muddle of faggots and fire-irons , her rump in the air , legs bare beneath the sawn-off fringes of her denim shorts , wearing a blue-grey sleeveless T-shirt that had ridden up around her waist . |
| 12 | There I saw an unusual sight : the admiral in shirtsleeves and braces sitting astride a very low dressing-table stool and gazing keenly at his reflection in the mirror , the ADC on his knees behind him brushing the curls at the back of his head . |
| 13 | It does n't sound like Mozzer is going to have to explain himself ; last week I saw an Asian punk rock band called Cornershop articulate many people 's feelings by setting fire to a poster of the misguided buffoon . |
| 14 | In March , on a visit to Leatherhead , I was walking around the JS branch when I saw an old customer . |
| 15 | I saw an old man in the Park ; |
| 16 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 17 | There were two easels in the room and on one she saw an unfinished picture . |
| 18 | Going to the kitchen window , the biscuit tin still in her hands , she saw an extraordinary sight . |
| 19 | So she gazed and her finger traced the outlines of nymphs — thinner , higher cheek-boned than she could ever hope to be , garlanded with flowers , stepping barefoot through the forest ; and sometimes she saw an exhausted Venus , a hand below her belly , lying in a countryside where oxen were driven and ships set sail on uncharted seas . |
| 20 | Then she saw an elderly Sister and made another enquiry . |
| 21 | She saw an old man digging in one of the vegetable gardens , but he looked cross and unfriendly , so she walked on . |
| 22 | Looking down from a height of ten or twelve feet , she saw an old friend , the MGM lion . |
| 23 | At one of the tram stops on the way to the industrial estate where Anna worked , she saw an old lady in a shabby grey coat pull herself on , and recognised with surprise and a sinking of her heart her mother-in-law . |
| 24 | Inside the summerhouse she saw an old woman and a boy . |
| 25 | She saw an empty space on the walls and demanded to know where the picture was . |
| 26 | Then , as Sophie prepared to get out , she saw an empty car — a blue Porsche — standing outside the surgery door . |
| 27 | She saw an empty sandwich packet on the wooden bench beside her and remembered that she had decided to eat lunch in St James ' Park . |
| 28 | But on a bridge across the Corrib , she saw an itinerant girl , barefoot , selling flowers , and said she needed some . |
| 29 | His expression had n't changed , but suddenly she saw an underlying loss and sadness , so much a part of him that it was easy to miss — but once seen , not easy to overlook again . |
| 30 | Past the shocked faces on the next table , she saw an expensive-looking bottle of red wine and some half-filled glasses . |