Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw the engine powerfully at work , its wires running to a monstrous figure , about which the scientist flitted in nervous excitement , Presently the figure sat up in its bandages . |
| 2 | I saw the excitement there . |
| 3 | I saw the King once more . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're not identical twins , ’ said Mrs Maybury , getting to her feet , ‘ but I saw the resemblance straight away . |
| 5 | I saw the goal again on the box this morning , and it seems that Brian Deane was pushed into a marginally offside position . |
| 6 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 7 | Thirty-five years later I saw the film again in New York . |
| 8 | I saw the film alone , |
| 9 | " I saw the headmistress today . |
| 10 | I saw the light there and assumed that he was working . ’ |
| 11 | I saw the lizard again , darting from her matted hair to hide in a broken fruitbowl . |
| 12 | Lazio doctor Claudio Bartolini , who was scared when Gazza was first injured , said yesterday : ‘ When I saw the accident again on TV I was very worried , but this morning I looked at it and now we are both very happy . |
| 13 | I had n't come to this place with the conscious intention of divesting myself of my now cumbersome virginity ; but from the moment I saw the actor again — certainly from the moment his arms went round me and I felt the sense of fond familiarity , of affection rediscovered — I knew it was inevitable that we should , sooner or later , make love . |
| 14 | There I saw the monster again , swarming up the cruel face . |
| 15 | But if I was a referee now unless I saw the forward actually trying to stay on his feet I would view all of those fouls very suspiciously . |
| 16 | As always , he wrote , painting lags behind literature , which saw the connection as long ago as Poe . |
| 17 | She saw the queen occasionally on royal visits to Germany . |
| 18 | The forest opened into a large clearing and she gagged as she saw the slaughter within . |
| 19 | When the road dipped down to the curved span of the bridge she saw the water far below , snaking its way between the high rock walls of a narrow gorge . |
| 20 | Sheila was emboldened from what she saw the night before to ask Rose when Moran had gone out again . |
| 21 | Then she remembered someone taking off her nightgown , and a brisk woman in a white starched uniform saying something about going into the theatre — and she saw the doctor again , talking earnestly to a man in a long white gown who was pulling on a pair of rubber gloves … . |
| 22 | But whoever it was , they were determined to catch Artemis , for when Artemis stole another look she saw the horse behind was really stretching out . |
| 23 | She saw the terror there , and was arrested . |
| 24 | She saw the body immediately . |
| 25 | And then she saw the creature again . |
| 26 | She inhaled sharply when she saw the figure there . |
| 27 | No , well I , I mean you saw the point really . |
| 28 | Car hire girl Lorna Wilson , 30 , who saw the crash just yards from her office , said : ‘ The driver seemed to appear from nowhere just as the whole place went up in flames . |
| 29 | The first is that , contrary to what is implied in Harold Nicolson 's biography , Sir Herbert Samuel , who saw the King shortly after noon , was not the first to make the suggestion that there should be a National Government : the first suggestion came from the King himself . |
| 30 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |