Example sentences of "saw [pron] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I could n't see them , but when I heard a little quack I had a close look and saw them all there huddled together and trying to keep warm . |
| 2 | Yesterday afternoon , however , saw them all back up to speed with Grant Dalton 's Fisher & Paykel out in front by three miles from Steinlager 2 , skippered by his fellow New Zealander Peter Blake . |
| 3 | From one dim object to another he let his eyes roam , and he saw them all clearly : the Louis Quinze couch between the long windows , the French glass-fronted cabinet in the corner opposite , the sixteenth-century iron-bound chest standing in the alcove , its lid flat against the wall , held there by a pyramid of logs . |
| 4 | I saw them all war in her face . |
| 5 | I saw them all in control of a class ( or at least presenting to a large group ) and I was well pleased with their competence . |
| 6 | The light seemed to have brightened , which was odd , and she saw them all like actors on a stage , brightly lit , faces made grotesque and heightened by make-up , every . |
| 7 | I saw them all on a rail . |
| 8 | ‘ We saw you all go into the tunnel , and then we went across the hill to see you all come out , ’ explained Peter . |
| 9 | And it 's so odd , it 's hard now when somebody says , ‘ What was it like ? ’ or says , ‘ What did she use to wear ? ’ because of course we all saw her all the time and thought nothing of it , saw her at the very least once a week ( missing service , it was called , if you went a week without visiting , and it was certain to be discussed amongst the congregation when you did finally show up ) , it 's just very odd for me to think that you were never there and that this is all strange to you when to us it was just an ordinary life . |
| 10 | I was just about to say ‘ yes ’ when they grabbed me and I saw they all had guns . |
| 11 | But unknown to the gunman , a little boy had been stealing a ride on the bar under the carriage , and he saw it all . |
| 12 | Gemayel saw it all rather differently . |
| 13 | Anton , in this cubicle , stuck time , it seemed as a hundred years , the boy ; he was surprised how innocent , trusting — for he saw it all so clearly now , Parker 's mask — he once had been . |
| 14 | She saw it all as plainly as if it had been magically transported from Yorkshire and spread out on the quayside , the moors stretching away in the distance until they met the skyline . |
| 15 | ‘ Who saw it all ? ’ |
| 16 | Purvis saw it all and followed the wretched pair to where they buried the body . |
| 17 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 18 | Seeing her , Liz saw it all . |
| 19 | But , years later , Liz found herself visiting the Freud museum in Berggasse in Vienna , and there she suddenly saw it all — the red walls , the figurines , and , perhaps most distinctively , the predominance of red carpet-cushions , the characteristic mixture of Persian geometric patterns on floor and couch — a Jewish mixture , a Viennese mixture , a Freudian mixture ? |
| 20 | She saw it all in terms of Edmund 's settlement : a brief holiday on the Riviera , and such a sum could vanish as if it had never been . |
| 21 | ‘ Suddenly I saw it all , when we were lying there . |
| 22 | Oliver Craddock saw it all . |
| 23 | I saw it all . |
| 24 | For a few terrible moments they saw it all , and cowered , covering their eyes . |
| 25 | This was not obvious to most people in the later nineteenth century , and the general effect of the Second Law was to encourage the gloomy belief that in time the universe would die the heat death of general tepidity : that the universe would see Victorians and their foreseeable descendants out , its death being many million years away , was little consolation to believers in progress , who saw it all stopping in the distant future . |
| 26 | Well , I was there , behind the bar , standing in for Marcus , for a few minutes he said , more like two hours , so I saw it all develop . |
| 27 | I saw it all . |
| 28 | Although he 'd never been blessed with a particularly vivid imagination , Charlie saw it all in an instant . |
| 29 | So we actually saw it all , erm it 's actually quite a lot bigger than it looks . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw it all happen , ’ said Seymour-Strachey , leaning forward in a burst of confidentiality and exposing a set of amazingly white teeth . |