Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of women , I saw the type of her , heroic greatness in Mrs Siddons ; of her fascinations , in Mrs Jordan and Mlle Mars ; I listened with rapture to the dreamy monologues of Coleridge — ‘ that old man eloquent ’ ; I travelled with Wordsworth , the greatest of our lyrico-philosophical poets ; I relished the wit and pathos of Charles Lamb ; I conversed freely with Goethe at his own table , beyond all competition the supreme genius of his age and country . |
| 2 | Nearly two years ago , I saw the type of package that really interested me BUT , of course , it was not for my computer . |
| 3 | I saw the voice for the first time ! |
| 4 | ‘ If I loved him , replied the river , ‘ it was because , when he leaned over my water , I saw the reflection of my waters in his eyes . ’ |
| 5 | In the driving mirror I saw the driver of the estate-car was growing restive . |
| 6 | With this background , as a teacher I saw the subject as a collection of facts and skills that I had to impart to my pupils in a well-defined sequence . |
| 7 | Normally this point is proved by the officer in the case examining the registration document and including in his statement a passage such as ‘ On examining the vehicle 's registration document I saw the date of first registration was … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When Karen broke the news of our marriage so crudely at Thomas 's party , and I saw the look on your face , I understood for the first time the force of that old cliché about wishing the floor would open up and swallow one . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw the look on your face as we left Glastonbury . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I saw the look on your face in the coffee-bar when Gavin said you 'd better beware of skeletons in your cupboard — frankly , it was a dead give-away that you had something to hide . ’ |
| 11 | I saw the knife in my mum 's neck . |
| 12 | Somebody brought a light and I saw the inside of the house . |
| 13 | Well cos I saw the cover of it and it looked really good . |
| 14 | When I learned one day that an amateur American flyer had set ‘ the world 's record ’ in altitude for a single-engined aircraft , carrying two to a height of more than 18,000 feet , I saw the possibility of a news story if I could beat that record . |
| 15 | I protested , waving my arms and running after her as I saw the possibility of getting into Ashley 's increasingly attractive body slipping away from me . |
| 16 | I felt so enthusiastic when I found this out and I began to read the stories , that I thought I saw the River of the Leprechauns , which is the crystal road to their kingdom ‘ Undersea . ’ |
| 17 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 18 | I saw the patient on the ground and went to help but was immediately overcome by the gas . |
| 19 | ‘ I saw the Engine on the Railway up as far as Lydham 's Heath Pool it was up nearly as far yesterday ’ . |
| 20 | I looked round as we crossed a road ; I saw the sign for Union Street where it was fixed to a low wall . |
| 21 | She describes its production , saying ‘ I saw the Queen at Sandringham with her dogs , which were painted as much as possible from life . |
| 22 | I saw the bit in the papers bout this too . |
| 23 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |
| 24 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 25 | Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye . |
| 26 | When I saw the title of the next album — ‘ The Sunday Brunch ’ — I immediately assumed this must be the ‘ American ’ one ( ) . |
| 27 | Beneath the shirt I saw the outline of her breasts . |
| 28 | Leaning in , choked , I saw the banner above the pulpit in the chapel I had attended so regularly as a child . |
| 29 | And we had to help them to move and you know help them to move their things and really I saw the kind of difficulties the girls would be living under . |
| 30 | I saw the sense of this , though regretfully : there is very little real communication that can take place between one generation and another . |