Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Away to the right I saw the flat gleam of the loch . |
| 3 | I saw the hired hand from M. Deloche 's farm coming across the field with it in his hand . |
| 4 | I saw the outlandish figure shuffling into the dock . |
| 5 | For example , I recently came across the word ‘ homerun ’ and tried for several seconds to read it as ‘ homer-un ’ , until I saw the correct morpheme structure . |
| 6 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue . |
| 7 | I saw the young man lived in Penn … . ’ 'Such dreadful things happen in families nowadays , ’ she said ( I liked ‘ nowadays ’ ) . |
| 8 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 9 | When next I saw the young couple together it was winter . |
| 10 | He started up at my scream and I saw the dark blood on him and on me . |
| 11 | We did so , heaving and pushing until the bed moved a few inches and I saw the slight scorch mark on the stone floor beneath . |
| 12 | I saw the Black Destroyer , and remembered its demise . |
| 13 | Then I saw the small monster too . |
| 14 | I parked the van in one of the perimeter car parks and walked through the campus buildings reading the graffiti until I saw the amended sign reading Stundent Onion , and one which had n't been vandalized saying simply Bar . |
| 15 | ‘ or disorderly behaviour ’ This point can be proved by a description in the police officer 's statement of evidence such as , ‘ I saw the accused push into a queue of football supporters ’ or ‘ I saw the accused jumping over flower containers in the Market Place ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ or disorderly behaviour ’ This point can be proved by a description in the police officer 's statement of evidence such as , ‘ I saw the accused push into a queue of football supporters ’ or ‘ I saw the accused jumping over flower containers in the Market Place ’ . |
| 17 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 18 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 19 | When visiting a church on the south coast , I saw the following notice for the Young Wives ' Social Evening : ‘ If your husband has nothing on , bring him along to join in the fun ! ’ |
| 20 | From what I saw the other day , you already have a full biography of me down to the very last detail , even though you 'd missed one or two relevant facts . |
| 21 | I saw the other day . |
| 22 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw the other dog , ’ said Philip . |
| 24 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ In the fort I saw the finest set of buildings in the world — but no one was caring for them . |
| 26 | I saw the major-domo turn away a couple weighed down with medal ribbons and jewels , while admitting a fat young man in a greasy fez and ragged robe . |
| 27 | Then I saw the spare figure of Captain Robins walking towards me , bag in hand : even on land after such a short voyage he had the kind of rolling gait that proclaimed him a man of the sea . |
| 28 | What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago ! |
| 29 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 30 | As a conservator in Europe , involved with the treatment of stone and marble affected by the ravages of twentieth-century pollution , I was delighted when I saw the great marble buildings at Agra seemingly unaffected by such problems . |