Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] saw [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went down to the execution yard where I saw three corpses . |
| 2 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 3 | At first we travelled through magnificent stretches of forest , where we saw occasional bushbuck and many black-and-white colobus monkeys . |
| 4 | Also we went down to the H.Q. at Pages Park where we saw some men putting up photographs of the line in the past . |
| 5 | Kouchner visited Mogadishu port and Baidoa , in the south-west , where he saw French food aid arrive . |
| 6 | He also distributed library books to those who asked for them — although I saw few books in the cells or barracks and it was stated that few prisoners were interested in reading . |
| 7 | Oh I did n't notice that I saw that thing in the car but I did n't notice a bracket . |
| 8 | you know the big spread that I saw that time |
| 9 | I remember now that I saw neat features , a nose a little hooked , and a very good figure . |
| 10 | grandma er said when she went to China and that she saw these bogeys on the back of bikes that they were carrying |
| 11 | Surely we do not wish to deny that she saw these hazards despite her being unable to tell us anything about what she saw . |
| 12 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 13 | This seems an effort to fit a cult-statue into a building with a sacrificial pit ; and though it was in profile that one saw these statues as one came in or went out , if one looked up as one passed under the beam which hid them , one saw them again , carved in very low relief on its underside , standing frontal and looking down at one : altogether an astonishing conception . |
| 14 | and you know what it was n't one of his objections at all , you know the video that we saw that morning |
| 15 | We do n't anticipate the same rate of increase that we saw last year , but we 'd be expecting probably somewhere in the region of a 10 to 15 per cent increase over the coming year . |
| 16 | Although they saw other Girls rehearsing in troupe , Elsie and Eddie Port seemed to be the only pupils who were training at the School . |
| 17 | Durkheim 's view differed from Freud 's , however , in that he saw little possibility of happiness for people outside a normative societal structure . |
| 18 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 19 | His mild reaction to the tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles was perhaps explicable by the fact that he saw such events as inevitable and because the Foreign Office was locked into a policy of appeasement . |
| 20 | Dan 's notes record that he saw eleven B–17s go down . |
| 21 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 22 | Emancipation for women was beginning to rumble and Cook may have embraced the idea , but , being a shrewd opportunist , it is more likely that he saw potential customers among women who were striving for more freedom . |
| 23 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 24 | ‘ When the car had gone past me I applied my safety-catch and I saw Private Aindow standing in a firing position ’ . |
| 25 | And I saw one man the fact that he was me uncle do n't make any difference , but he was , and and he was very religious , very Christian man , S Sunday School superintendent . |
| 26 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
| 27 | But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’ |
| 28 | Oh I , I said that to you at the time Robert , I mean I 'll be honest and I saw that document and I nearly died and it 's the way they say it too |
| 29 | It was one of these African leaders who said : ‘ In the war-torn North-East of Rhodesia , I saw white men killed and I saw black men killed . |
| 30 | Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire . |