Example sentences of "and saw a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at this time that Diderot , who often strolled into the artists ' studios , paid a visit to David , and saw a picture which the artist was just finishing . |
| 2 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 3 | He took off his shoe to investigate , then heard a noise overhead and saw a flock of starlings flying past . |
| 4 | I approached the compost heap and saw a small cloud of whiteflies rise from it . |
| 5 | Consequently he was in a ferocious temper when he got into his room and saw a mound of mail on his desk , half of which was addressed to Steinmark . |
| 6 | And then we bought a copy of the New Musical Express and saw a little ad that went with it . |
| 7 | I turned and saw a sad-eyed middle-aged man sitting on a bench staring at me . |
| 8 | We also went to Madrid again and saw a performance by the famous travelling circus , the Circo Price , about whose clowns I wrote a poem in The Prodigal Son . |
| 9 | He turned , bewildered , and saw a big man with spiky grey hair , a tanned skin and eyes that later always seemed to be the colour of phlegm . |
| 10 | I looked down and saw a giant freshwater prawn almost a foot long . |
| 11 | I ran across the road to the open door of another tiny studio , and saw a grizzle-bearded hobo-like man singing into a microphone , his mouth wide open and his eyes half closed . |
| 12 | We had coffee with the team members and their families and saw a slide-show of last year 's trip . |
| 13 | The next morning I looked out of the window of my warm bedroom into the backyard and saw a child enter the open gate from the garden , look cautiously round , lift the lid from an over-flowing garbage can and quickly and efficiently pick out the scraps of bread and other left-overs from our supper tables the previous night . |
| 14 | One day Victoria and Alexander were called to the drawing room after tea and saw a strange woman in a dress printed with yellow lemons sitting on the fender beside their father . |
| 15 | He hobbled through the first available door , which was marked Adjutant General , and saw a red-faced major seated behind the desk . |
| 16 | One night he heard a loud noise in the yard , looked out and saw a black person apparently being whipped — as he thought , to death . |
| 17 | He went back to the ballet , he said , after a period of doubt , because he walked into a studio and saw a young woman putting her feet into the rosin box to stop her shoes from slipping : the familiar action , a mixture of habit and discipline and grace , made him realize where his heart belonged . |
| 18 | When he had recovered himself he looked up the narrow lane and saw a young boy racing into the distance , the white straw hat clutched in one hand and waving at his side as his arms pumped the air with the effort of running . |
| 19 | He slipped these off and saw a blurred , red disk of a face which resembled a Francis Bacon portrait . |
| 20 | The adventurer looked about him , and saw a wide beautiful lawn on which many people stood around the Emperor . |
| 21 | She studied him objectively , as one of her team , and saw a quite reasonably fit , bright boy , hard with nights of climbing over factory walls and across their roofs and being chased by securicor men , quick-witted out of habit , used to an uncomfortable life . |
| 22 | Then I looked in my driving mirror and saw a girl I decided must be you . |
| 23 | Dad looked out of his bedroom window and saw a strange car , with some men in it , parked outside . |
| 24 | Corbett peered closer and saw a V-rod and crescent marked on the tree . |
| 25 | He looked down and saw a man , small , dark , with black hair flowing down to his shoulders , staring up at him . |
| 26 | Jess turned sharply and saw a tall Negro coming from behind the mainmast . |
| 27 | Anyway , I was living in Boston at the time , but I was in a studio in Oslo and saw a Lexicon there , noticed that the company was in Boston and said , ‘ Can you put it on the guitar and see what it sounds like ? ’ |
| 28 | On the Sunday morning after the opening , Dustin spread out The New York Times on the sidewalk , and saw a half-page picture of himself illustrating a long article by Walter Kerr , the most esteemed American critic of the day , then only doing weekend pieces . |
| 29 | Just after lunch , as she was wriggling into her guide uniform , which had grown somewhat tight , Miss Lodsworth looked out of the window and saw a girl not wearing a hard hat clattering five ponies down the High Street . |
| 30 | She opened her eyes and saw a river , its surface shaking beneath the icy draught , the ducks bobbing slightly as they followed one another , seeking sanctuary . |