Example sentences of "[adv] saw [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suddenly saw a burning plane coming down from the sky … with its nose pointing towards the apartment buildings . |
| 2 | Certain countries , Ghana first and Tanzania considerably later , developed their own particular political creeds and naturally saw the primary school as an important instrument to lay the basis of particular attitudes and values . |
| 3 | A juror asked what the comforts were , for he only saw a little straw in the corner of the room , the windows of which were broken . |
| 4 | ‘ Only saw a dim outline , really . |
| 5 | And as I say again , I never went into a into the shops , I only saw the expensive stuff really . |
| 6 | At first she only saw the dark shape of the forest beside the road , then as her eyes adjusted to a faint lifting of the gloom a narrow laneway appeared between the trees . |
| 7 | The final touch down saw a convincing win over Chicksands . |
| 8 | He got to his fret and dusting himself down saw a large hole in the door behind him . |
| 9 | Tony did as he was told and finally saw the large area of waste ground ahead . |
| 10 | We soon saw the lengthy pontoon bridge spanning the Angara River . |
| 11 | Few of them flying about coming along just the line of the hydro wire at the hydro wire and just saw a blue flash and get down . |
| 12 | I just saw a little bit of it over there |
| 13 | I just saw a little bit of snow |
| 14 | Just saw a little lad going off to school , carrying half hundred weight of books ! |
| 15 | She just saw the slight frown on his brow by candlelight . |
| 16 | Gazing out of the window , she scarcely saw the breathtaking panorama spread out there for her delight . |
| 17 | THE Arnhem veteran standing at the Cenotaph in Whitehall yesterday saw no good news , only a threat to everything he had fought for , in the torrent of people flowing through the remains of the Berlin Wall . |
| 18 | I do n't think I ever saw a nude woman in the house — certainly there were women in various states of undress … but never nude . " |
| 19 | ‘ And then , although the other horrors faded , I still saw the dead body lying there . |
| 20 | The Church of England is behind the Baptist Union in halting its decline : the Baptists turned the corner between 1980 and 1985 , and thereafter saw a slight growth in membership . |
| 21 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 22 | And there I went a bit I once saw a big pile of soil at the back you know . |
| 23 | Sandra , who once saw a bad LSD experience , became fixed to what he called a firm mystical path , seeking enlightenment even before it was fashionable . |
| 24 | Fifty years later saw the high fashion of segregating house from village . |
| 25 | It was undoubtedly this conspicuous earthwork which attracted Philip Corder , who instantly saw the great challenge and possibilities it offered . |
| 26 | The last decades of the century also saw a vast development in America 's capacity for science education . |
| 27 | They also saw a deep hole lined with concrete , where earlier experiments were to be repeated on a far larger scale . |
| 28 | The year also saw a fair number of attempts to stimulate the UK market — introductory offers of 50% discount ( OUP ) , money-off vouchers ( LTP ) and extra discount ( CUP ) . |
| 29 | France also saw a large increase in public spending and taxation in the nearly two decades from 1971 , as did Italy from a lower base . |
| 30 | The 1930s also saw a vigorous campaign for better pensions for women , which led to the introduction of a state pension for women at the age of sixty in 1940 . |