Example sentences of "saw the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each district to be balloted to produce its squad for the six thousand , and if the ballot brings up your name , ’ he paused again and saw the hundreds of eyes fixed on his , ‘ then you must go off to the Army , or else pay £10 to hire a substitute . |
| 2 | Mr Collum 's two years as chairman saw the 100 Group 's profile rise significantly , and Mr Lawrence intends to capitalise on his efforts . |
| 3 | or a target to be aimed at because when I saw the sixty seven I remembered it 's the number of the song that begins lord bless and pity us . |
| 4 | He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness . |
| 5 | Perhaps you saw the two TV programmes on American fundamentalism recently which put the ghastly and unacceptable face of that form of fundamentalism before us . |
| 6 | His heart will have started to race as he looked left and right and saw the two main practice strips . |
| 7 | Mr Dovaston said witnesses had told police they saw the two men shout to Magee to catch up with them . |
| 8 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |
| 9 | From the beginning , Pitt-Rivers saw the two flaws in the 1882 Ancient Monuments Protection Act . |
| 10 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 11 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 12 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 13 | He touched Doyle 's shoulder and saw the two gaping wounds , then noticed the third in the chest , above the heart . |
| 14 | D'Arcy saw the two wine goblets on the table ; the empty bottle of Haut-Brion . |
| 15 | The new Trophy format then saw the two singles rubbers played simultaneously on adjacent courts , with 22-year-old Drake falling to Yorkshire champion Gary Henderson 4–6 2–6 , while 37-year-old team-mate Jonathan Smith secured the overall match victory with a 7–5 6–3 win over the Yorkshire champion on Simon Ickringill . |
| 16 | She saw the two agitated , concerned faces turned upwards , side by side , illuminated by her jerking , wavering torch , and suddenly , she laughed . |
| 17 | I never saw the two of them in conversation . |
| 18 | She saw the two women lying in their beds . |
| 19 | He saw the two young people and stopped in front of them . |
| 20 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 21 | Wayne 's antennae went onto visible alert when he saw the two of them emerging from the Hall . |
| 22 | You never saw the two together . ’ |
| 23 | He saw the two women sitting there as the Orion glided past and disappeared up a side street . |
| 24 | Brown Owl made a sympathetic noise when she saw the two huge blisters . |
| 25 | After the interval we saw The Two Pigeons with Sandra Madgwick , Michael O'Hare , Anita Landa , and Chenca Williams in the leading roles . |
| 26 | All I needed was a little bit of luck and as I pressed , dry mouthed , along the empty street it seemed I had found it The shock when I saw the two burly SPs strolling towards me was like a blow but was immediately followed by a strange calm . |
| 27 | At the window they laughed together and bit a knuckle , like children or housemaids — watching avidly , they saw the two boys get out of a car that could not be Robert 's . |
| 28 | I saw the two young people put extra food on the blind man 's plate , although they were hungry themselves . |
| 29 | Hilary Frome glanced politely in its direction , and saw the two bottles of sherry left over from the last staff festivities , one of them half empty , the other two-thirds empty . |
| 30 | They are watching me , thought Rupert Stonebird , as he saw the two women walking rather too slowly down the road . |