Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 2 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 3 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 4 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 5 | as he half knew , he would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme for pulling Tristram out of trouble , and saw her for a moment from a position of detachment : a tall young woman looking younger than her twenty-nine years . |
| 6 | A few days after the Argentinian surrender , I saw her for a meeting on health service pay . |
| 7 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 8 | I only saw her for a day or two . ’ |
| 9 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 10 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 11 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 12 | They say he walked to the centre of the Sun Chamber , and that as he did so , the disguise fell from him , and everyone saw him for what he really was . |
| 13 | She had always pitied Kathleen and never liked Cormac , who had not tried to protect his sister , but now as she lay awake at night she saw him for what he was : a pitiable victim of his mother 's obsession . |
| 14 | I only saw him for a moment , but my blood seemed to freeze . |
| 15 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 16 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 17 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 18 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 19 | One though , Urathion of Ullar , saw it for the world-destroying madness that it was . |
| 20 | She saw it for a second , then it went behind a wave , and came up again . |
| 21 | Now she saw the love that had gone into it , saw it for the home it was , sensed it as only a woman can . |
| 22 | We saw it for a moment and then the match went out . |
| 23 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 24 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 25 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |