Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] saw [det] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | grandma er said when she went to China and that she saw these bogeys on the back of bikes that they were carrying |
| 7 | Surely we do not wish to deny that she saw these hazards despite her being unable to tell us anything about what she saw . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | and you know what it was n't one of his objections at all , you know the video that we saw that morning |
| 11 | Durkheim 's view differed from Freud 's , however , in that he saw little possibility of happiness for people outside a normative societal structure . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Went and I saw some monkeys though . |
| 18 | And I saw some liquorice root and I said , oh ! |
| 19 | No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it |
| 20 | Now in nineteen er nineteen fifteen , the the of course the War 'd started and I can remember this so well because the day after me birthday er there was a raid , a Zeppelin raid on and I saw this Zeppelin and that day the thirty first of January nineteen fifteen when this raid was , I wen I went to work at six in the morning and I finished work at quarter to nine at night . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We heard the noise of glass falling to the floor and I saw this group of three heading straight for the door . |
| 24 | If I saw this candle it would remind me of a carrot . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As trite as it sounds , I had forgotten what greenness was until I saw those palms . |
| 27 | Seems like I saw this scene before on the Twilight Zone . |
| 28 | Just wait until she saw that Tony Jones . |
| 29 | ‘ A skivvy ? ’ said her papa , almost disbelieving , and she saw that Mama felt the same . |
| 30 | 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 . |