Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] saw the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By spotlighting Hemingway 's taciturn blacks , the shadowy , subdued figures in Faulkner , or the insubstantial and sketchy figure of Willa Cather 's slave in Sapphira and the Slave Girl , Morrison reveals blackness as the boundary , the context that defines the ‘ mute ’ and ‘ frozen ’ world of whiteness : ‘ Suddenly I saw the bowl , the structure that transparently ( and invisibly ) permits the ordered life it contains to exist in the larger world . ’ |
| 2 | Suddenly she saw the car . |
| 3 | Then suddenly she saw the skipping-rope . |
| 4 | Perhaps you saw the Shell poster with the headline : " Nothing is more dangerous than a wet Zebra . " |
| 5 | So you saw the cowboy in the spaghetti western on the cover of the last magazine , well it seems that the only way was up for Steve Perry from Pest Control , Birmingham South . |
| 6 | In we saw the Health Authority choosing not to purchase services directly from the N H S for their but purchasing from a voluntary stroke private , privately motivated organization . |
| 7 | Soon she saw the house of the March Hare in front of her . |
| 8 | From then on she saw the union as an organisation which redressed the injustices of the employers . |
| 9 | I took the milk , and I poured it on the floor where the slate is hollowed , because once I saw the lake in moonlight and it was white . |
| 10 | Elinor 's only defence system was to say , in a tone fractionally the right side of panic — ‘ I 'm in here ! ’ — if ever she saw the door move . |
| 11 | More and more they saw the folly of setting out with a medium in search of a message … |
| 12 | Then , when I was grown up I saw the film The Sinking of the Titanic and it brought back the terror . |
| 13 | Later I saw the degree of animation which videos like this can stimulate among activists . |
| 14 | Thirty-five years later I saw the film again in New York . |
| 15 | Two years later I saw the Giffens again . |
| 16 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 17 | The American woman strolled over to the riverbank to watch him , and as the fragments of the raw flesh floated away down-stream she saw the water churned to a white froth by shoals of ravenous fish fighting to devour them . |
| 18 | Later we saw the Duke of Edinburgh 's yawl , Bloodhound . |
| 19 | Later he saw the girls in shawls , distorted |
| 20 | Five minutes later he saw the lights of a village pub . |
| 21 | Glancing up he saw the senator beckoning for his sons to join him . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Now you saw the article ? |
| 24 | Nodding his head , Aplin asked , ‘ Is that why you 'd been drinking , the night before you saw the robbery on Handley Plain ? ’ |
| 25 | Now she saw the love that had gone into it , saw it for the home it was , sensed it as only a woman can . |
| 26 | However , unlike the pupils at school A they saw the organization of the school as having little influence on their educational opportunities , rather they saw the attitudes of the teachers as being paramount , concluding that the prevailing attitudes held by certain teachers would undermine the organization of any school . |
| 27 | Actually it was lucky that we went right over all three lanes of the motorway , there was a lot of people behind us , but luckily they saw the tyres , and they backed off , but we could have finished up in a real |
| 28 | Well I saw the curtains were down erm when I took the triplets |
| 29 | He said , well I saw the queue , and I joined it |
| 30 | But here I saw the way the streets were going , how they darkened despite the sun , the juicy air , the innocence of the covering blue . |