Example sentences of "and saw [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night I got stoned and saw exactly what I 'd become — a spoiled , heartless little shit . |
| 2 | In total , the jury heard 94 prosecution witnesses and saw over 950 pages of exhibits . |
| 3 | I wandered along the sandy beach and saw just how mums and dads with kiddies and gran and grandad too , were enjoying a REAL family holiday in the sun . |
| 4 | I spent a Saturday night recently on patrol with the police in central Cardiff and saw just how thin is the blue line which looks after law and order in the city at night . |
| 5 | Derek saw it and saw also Frank 's reluctant flinch of sympathy . |
| 6 | But we waited and waited all that afternoon and saw neither hide nor hair of Mary . |
| 7 | I looked for bubbles rising , hoping to find him that way , and saw not bubbles but a red stain in the water a short way off , a swirl of colour against drab . |
| 8 | When Nathaniel Sherman awoke and saw where he was , he had looked at his wife shamefacedly and agreed immediately to her request to be driven to the imperial capital at Hue where the emperor of Annam was due to celebrate the Tet festival the following day . |
| 9 | They were just poling away and Matt shouted ‘ Hey , fellers , cut ’ but they did n't take any notice and I remember thinking maybe they 're testing the rope to see if it works , and Matt and I turned at just the same moment and saw where the Indians were heading us — straight into a pile of rocks and foaming water — and I knew the rope must have broken or something . |
| 10 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 11 | I looked up and saw again the arrow cut into the tree . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing of which you would approve , Doctor Horrocks , ’ she teased , and saw immediately that the Rector might misunderstand . |
| 13 | What he did he saw he saw the method and saw well this is quite neat . |
| 14 | Earlier in the story Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw ahead of him the place where he thought he would kill his son . |
| 15 | On hearing George Marsh shout , then scream , those in the box looked out and saw momentarily the terrifying apparition seconds before it disappeared . |
| 16 | Treleaven strolled out for the first play-off hole , the par-four 10th , and saw off all opposition with a birdie three on the second most difficult hole on the course . |
| 17 | Mark out with a sharp scriber and saw out with a bandsaw — or hacksaw . |
| 18 | Mr. E.J.W. ( Benny ) Goodman came as Secretary in July 1982 and saw out the year , being replaced by the present Secretary/Manager Brian Lovelock , first in an ‘ acting ’ capacity , but made permanent a year later . |
| 19 | He went back to Pinner and saw out his last year of education at a local comprehensive . |
| 20 | Dot looked down and saw only the tussocky grass and a flat square stone . |
| 21 | Richard stepped into the flat silently and saw only that they were in a wide hallway before the door closed behind him . |
| 22 | Silently , Nell regarded the white , steel tube with a sphere at one end and set with two ‘ V ’ observation ports surrounded by remote control grab arms , and saw only an insect-like thing , a huge preying mantis . |
| 23 | Without speaking they walked through the gap of the east window and on to the edge of the cliff and saw only the moon-bleached beach stretching north and south , the thin fringe of white foam . |
| 24 | Lili said that of course I must , but I made the error of looking at my mother for approval , found none and saw only displeasure at my childish crudity . |
| 25 | Edwin Frere looked into Agnew 's old face and saw only hopeless consternation there , as though he too were overwhelmed with feelings so vast and flood-like that no word might answer them . |
| 26 | I looked up and saw only an outline where he was sitting . |
| 27 | and saw then , as of waves taking form , |
| 28 | Allen Tate visited the Eliots in September , and saw how weak he was . |
| 29 | He lifted his eyes and saw how concerned Hal was . |
| 30 | For the first time she saw through his mask of precocious intelligence and saw how vulnerable he was , how frail in spite of all . |