Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] saw [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | At first we travelled through magnificent stretches of forest , where we saw occasional bushbuck and many black-and-white colobus monkeys . |
| 3 | Kouchner visited Mogadishu port and Baidoa , in the south-west , where he saw French food aid arrive . |
| 4 | Oh I did n't notice that I saw that thing in the car but I did n't notice a bracket . |
| 5 | you know the big spread that I saw that time |
| 6 | and you know what it was n't one of his objections at all , you know the video that we saw that morning |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Durkheim 's view differed from Freud 's , however , in that he saw little possibility of happiness for people outside a normative societal structure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ When the car had gone past me I applied my safety-catch and I saw Private Aindow standing in a firing position ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And I saw some liquorice root and I said , oh ! |
| 15 | No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it |
| 16 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 17 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 18 | ‘ We heard the noise of glass falling to the floor and I saw this group of three heading straight for the door . |
| 19 | If I saw this candle it would remind me of a carrot . |
| 20 | If I saw any cruelty in this business , I 'd leave the business because I would n't like my son to be brought up in an environment where there was cruelty to animals . |
| 21 | Seems like I saw this scene before on the Twilight Zone . |
| 22 | ‘ A skivvy ? ’ said her papa , almost disbelieving , and she saw that Mama felt the same . |
| 23 | And the woman lost her brooch on the way back and she saw this man next morning , he was a policeman in , and he he was too fond of the drink , a and he he was on , he was a railway policeman , and he fell onto the rails , when the train was coming , nobody knows how he how he how he er he lost one arm er about there and the other one about there , both arms but he he survived it . |
| 24 | By the time they reached Coniston and she saw grey stone cottages beside a lake reflecting more of those unbelievable mountains , she knew she was being offered a new world . |
| 25 | I think it means like if you saw that boy do something , the police , you , you take out a sworn affidavit that you saw him do that and , I think it 's a legal document , look it up , it 's |
| 26 | In the term , the only term we needed to explain the whole structure of conscious , unconscious , pre-conscious , was repression and we saw that repression was really a key concept . |
| 27 | Then I was in another ship , three years ago , and we saw this island . |
| 28 | ‘ Me and my sister and my uncle — my sister , who 's a scientist , right ? — we were walking along and we saw this light go across the sky , then it stopped and made this complete square , then it was gone . ’ |
| 29 | And they saw each other out of work , too . |
| 30 | They claimed the right to liberate themselves by armed struggle and they saw any recognition of Israel 's legitimacy as contingent on Israeli and American recognition of their own right to self-determination . |