Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely saw a lesson in which the students had not gone to some considerable length to vary their material and their activities to take account of the level of the class , the length of the lesson and the time of day or week . |
| 2 | I eventually saw a specialist who prescribed something to ‘ kick-start ’ my periods . |
| 3 | I eventually saw a report about striking miners on American TV . |
| 4 | ‘ But I told ye I only saw a shadow . ’ |
| 5 | But I c er I only see a blackbird , that 's all , two blackbirds three . |
| 6 | ‘ I just saw a car run into the back of another car and a lorry ended up going sideways ’ , Sacco went on . |
| 7 | But I do like life , I do like reality ; I just see a lot of manipulation of that in the photography business . |
| 8 | I once saw a cellarful of pleasant bindings , all cleaned and polished , waiting shipment to America . |
| 9 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 10 | And it was not Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery who once stated that : ‘ I once saw a bowler in Australia thunder to the wicket and bowl a flatout underarm to the batsman . |
| 11 | It 's all done up in steel pins and scaffolding to hold it up , and I once saw a computer thing in a museum showing how it shudders when the trains go over . |
| 12 | ’ I once saw a film about a girl in love with a man who had a dickey heart , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I have n't I have n't actually seen one , but I once saw a lady on the bus with one |
| 14 | And I once saw a dancing bear when I was little . |
| 15 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 16 | I once saw a copy of the German illustrated weekly Der Adler in which there were photographs of individual prisoners posing goodnaturedly . |
| 17 | Years later , at a falconry centre , I once saw a falcon miss the bait it was supposed to pick up , fly past , come to a sudden standstill in mid-air , turn 180 degrees and zoom down again . |
| 18 | I once saw a science fiction movie about time-travellers in the future ; towards the end of the film the whole story is speeded up and re-run in about two minutes . |
| 19 | The first time I ever saw a skinhead haircut & Crombie on the same person was in 1978 or 9 . |
| 20 | Nor , I must confess , have I ever seen a fox . |
| 21 | My wardrobe may not be as current these days , and I hardly saw a movie for a year and a half while I was getting myself back on my feet financially . |
| 22 | Women of all ages were shouting and I clearly saw a handbag swung overarm . |
| 23 | I also saw a vision of a ‘ better ’ world and realised that my duty as a mother was no longer in the kitchen , but in that world . |
| 24 | A healthy worm population is evident , as I often see a thrush , starling or jackdaw feeding . |
| 25 | I originally saw an advert in the paper asking for volunteers for the hospital radio station . |
| 26 | I immediately saw an increase in the size of my mushroom polyps compared to their pre-crisis dimensions ; obviously the low concentration of phosphate in my water ( which is otherwise good , with zero nitrate ) had been preventing them from fully expanding . |
| 27 | On this stretch , I even saw a taxi . |
| 28 | She looked sad and worried , and I even saw a tear or two on her face . |
| 29 | I presently see a figure approaching from a hundred yards off , up the middle of the street : a tall young woman , in a close white cap , and a short frock of lilac cotton , and coarse sack-cloth apron , and strong boots . |
| 30 | I therefore see a need for clear agreements to be made between public agencies and not-for-profit bodies on the basis of public agency funding . |