Example sentences of "[conj] i see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I said to John and Joanne erm that I saw a boy running up the ginnel no you understand ? |
| 2 | I thought once or twice that I saw a glint of sardonic amusement in Conchis 's eyes , but I could n't be sure . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought , ’ Phillis said , ‘ that I saw a shadow . ’ |
| 4 | A reply might be that surely I am inferring that I see a sheep in the field from my knowledge of my own present sensory states . |
| 5 | Once I saw a woman there full of grief . |
| 6 | Just then we reached the gate , and I saw a gentleman on a horse looking over it . |
| 7 | It was in St Andrews and I saw a suit in the window of a boutique . |
| 8 | And I saw a hole in the bottom at the side of it where they had blasted a hole in it in order to sink it . |
| 9 | The moonlight shone into my bedroom , as it did then , and I saw a vision on the ceiling , a white figure looking down on me . |
| 10 | In the late 1950s this order of dress was even more carefully observed and I saw a detective sergeant ordered home to change from Harris tweed jacket and flannels into ‘ proper clothing ’ . |
| 11 | [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them … |
| 12 | And I saw a hen get killed . |
| 13 | But if I were a teenager and I saw a TV star telling me that he had taken coke , I would reckon that there must be a reason why the famous spend a fortune on this drug . |
| 14 | ‘ It was play-time , and I saw a huddle of children near the sheds . |
| 15 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 16 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 17 | One Queens district resident said : ‘ Yesterday I looked out my window and I saw a guy doing the back stroke down my block . |
| 18 | ‘ I then heard a series of shots and I saw a number of bodies being dragged away . ’ |
| 19 | But he 's slightly ahead of some of the others because he had three weeks with me last summer and I saw a lot of him . ’ |
| 20 | My gaze dropped and I saw a ring — an iridescent opal , set in a circle of rich , blood-red garnets . |
| 21 | I looked at Jean-Claude as he gave me these instructions and I saw a side of him I did not recognize . |
| 22 | When I was studying I went to Open Air Theatre and I saw a version there on Christopher er what 's his name that chubby fellow with the glasses Christopher Biggins that 's it . |
| 23 | When I was studying I went to Open Air Theatre and I saw a version there on Christopher er what 's his name that chubby fellow with the glasses Christopher Biggins that 's it . |
| 24 | They manage to get food sent through to the controlled zones and I saw a van come back laden with fruit which the compañeros had sent them in return . |
| 25 | I looked out of the window and I saw a queue of people waiting for the bus … and so on . |
| 26 | So I believe in all that , Mikhail Vologsky , and I see a Russia which has none of it . |
| 27 | I know what it 's like these days — we 're all stretched as far as we can go ’ — he sighed — ‘ but I 've had a little think and I see a way round it for you . |
| 28 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 29 | ‘ I go to a lot of fellowship meetings and I see a counsellor once a week which gives me the tools to handle life on a day-to-day basis . ’ |
| 30 | Also , we decided to make a stylistic change on this record and I see a lot of other metal bands following suit . |