Example sentences of "[conj] i saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |
| 2 | It was at Snaefellsness that I saw the bird I had hoped to find — and which was ‘ new ’ to me — the Brünnich 's guillemot . |
| 3 | And it 's funny because the last car that I saw the fellow 's from I saw the fellow 's who did it . |
| 4 | It was not until I was at a conference at which Jean Darnall was speaking that I saw the need to ask others to pray for me . |
| 5 | It came at once in the form of none other than the mighty Lord 's Prayer ; but it was n't until I got to the line about daily bread that I saw the light — I had n't given her any ! |
| 6 | It was only in 1960 that I saw the flaw in the argument . |
| 7 | And although it is almost certain death to look on them , Fergus , I stole out of the Palace that night , and I saw the green and blue smoke that indicates their presence , and I saw , just for a moment , the Elven King , Aillen mac Midha , seated cross-legged on the ground . |
| 8 | ‘ When Karen broke the news of our marriage so crudely at Thomas 's party , and I saw the look on your face , I understood for the first time the force of that old cliché about wishing the floor would open up and swallow one . |
| 9 | Then the lights went up and I saw the chucker-out standing over us . |
| 10 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 11 | It was a warm night and I saw the moon shining on the sea as I told my story . |
| 12 | When I surfaced , gasping , the sky was intensely blue and I saw the moon , cratered and radiant , high over the tower on the distant Mount . |
| 13 | Her topcoat was open , and I saw the belt of knives — with one missing — strung from shoulder to waist . |
| 14 | After that we would go to Tahiti , and I saw the excitement grow in Ellen as she realised that these plans were so close to coming true . |
| 15 | I was told not to push then , and I saw the midwife go to cut the cord , and finally it clicked what all the fuss had been about . |
| 16 | Somebody brought a light and I saw the inside of the house . |
| 17 | One Christmas I was flying over the city of Boston in America it night and I saw the Christmas lights like networks of jewellery flickering through the freezing air ; and hardly ever in my life had I seen anything more dazzling or beautiful . |
| 18 | I looked out of the window and I saw the postman delivering letters . |
| 19 | I had on the Ring of Luned that brings invisibility , and I saw the Glass Castle and the chains hanging in the Great Tower . |
| 20 | I tried to open the window- and I saw the glass . |
| 21 | And I saw the science club one about the bones . |
| 22 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
| 23 | Almost one might , says the other Robert , and I saw the seed fall on fertile ground , and there he 's tended it ever since . |
| 24 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
| 25 | Then , one morning in my twenty-third year on the island , I was out in my fields and I saw the smoke from a fire . |
| 26 | I thought it was a brown leaf , but it moved again , and I saw the object of my greatest dread , a toad . |
| 27 | Marcus was doubled over and I saw the woman tumbling backwards . |
| 28 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 29 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 30 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |