Example sentences of "[adv] saw a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Only saw a dim outline , really . |
| 4 | The final touch down saw a convincing win over Chicksands . |
| 5 | He got to his fret and dusting himself down saw a large hole in the door behind him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I just saw a little bit of it over there |
| 8 | I just saw a little bit of snow |
| 9 | Just saw a little lad going off to school , carrying half hundred weight of books ! |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And there I went a bit I once saw a big pile of soil at the back you know . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The last decades of the century also saw a vast development in America 's capacity for science education . |
| 16 | They also saw a deep hole lined with concrete , where earlier experiments were to be repeated on a far larger scale . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It may or may not be of significance that the Oxford English Dictionary can find no instance of the word ‘ pornography ’ being used before 1864 ( in a decade , it may be noted , which also saw a generalised use of the term ‘ capitalism ’ ) . |
| 21 | From this pale and anaemic-looking girl who had once thought only of turning the heads of young officers , and whom the Collector had considered insipid , he now saw a young woman of inflexible willpower emerging . |
| 22 | By using water instead of dilute caustic soda for backwashing , we immediately saw a dramatic improvement in caustic losses and in plant operation . |
| 23 | Dowie had two chances to increase the lead after the interval , but just failed to reach a cross from Black and then saw a low shot kept out by the legs of goalkeeper Kapilarii . |
| 24 | Mark Stein then saw a tantalising cross shave the visitors ' cross bar , but there was no way through for Stoke 's bulldozing tactics . |
| 25 | Watson and Thacker shot down — informed that all was clear but continued weaving — just as well as I then saw a red spinner in my mirror . |
| 26 | Minutes later , when Grant estimated he must have covered a good quarter of a mile , he again saw a grey wall barring his passage in the torch beam up ahead . |
| 27 | I never saw a fitted carpet . |
| 28 | You never saw a better ship — and with the name Hispaniola . |
| 29 | You never saw a black Irishman that height ) , tall as two abbeys , arriving in cavalcade , one from the north and one on the Roman road from the south , and dismounting and greeting one another . |
| 30 | It is quite certain that the poets Shakespeare , Keats , Byron and Wordsworth never saw a Hybrid Tea rose . |