Example sentences of "we saw the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we put our heads up , we saw the fires , and the swords slicing away . |
| 2 | We saw the city and marvelled . |
| 3 | I glanced back in the direction of the field where we saw the figures crossing . |
| 4 | Only later , when we saw the photographs , did we appreciate that Donnelly must have been magicked out of the car at the precise millisecond when the car exploded on impact . |
| 5 | In a sense , the hype answered that question even before we saw the programme . |
| 6 | ‘ We saw the King . |
| 7 | ‘ We had been to the pub down the road and were walking towards the crossing when we saw the train was coming , ‘ she said . |
| 8 | Through the slats of the shutters we saw the high , green sides of a ravine and a solitary tree fern growing luxuriantly , a living fossil from the coal forests of the Carboniferous . |
| 9 | We saw the pale brown , almond-eyed Caribs spiritlessly making baskets for tourists . |
| 10 | We saw the moon appear and disappear , veiled by clouds . |
| 11 | We saw the residents coming out , followed by the soldiers , and then we saw the houses , one by one , go up in smoke . |
| 12 | We saw the residents coming out , followed by the soldiers , and then we saw the houses , one by one , go up in smoke . |
| 13 | JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason . |
| 14 | We saw the ships crossing the Channel on our way back — hundreds and hundreds of them ! ’ |
| 15 | For example , when we saw the Sprite 200 J KrF laser , we were told that no one else in the world had a prototype of this quality for future laser fusion work . |
| 16 | Looking back from here along the river , we saw the boar . |
| 17 | This was the place where we saw the 1:1,000,000 map , but there were none for sale , and in general the airfield was pretty sleepy . |
| 18 | A black flipper gave the game away , and then we saw the diver 's head . |
| 19 | ‘ We saw the Worm . ’ |
| 20 | The car took us to the Monument , and then we saw the Worm . ’ |
| 21 | We saw the lights up here , Grandad and I. Then your mum phoned after you . |
| 22 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 23 | We saw the Clay Pipe Elbow , an ideal home for many cats and cichlids , and there are three other straight varieties . |
| 24 | We saw the place where Theseus found the sword beneath the stone , at Dhamalà of Troezen , and we watched cheese dripping through a cloth to make myzithra . |
| 25 | ‘ Chubby ’ Eliot and self had a bit of a dogfight for a while trying to get on each others ' tails as we were not certain the other was not a 109 until we saw the roundels . ’ |
| 26 | Almost immediately , as they disappeared behind the buildings of Valetta , we saw the flash followed by the crump of bursting , and the black clouds of smoke rising vertically into the still air . |
| 27 | It was not till we saw the captive aerostat balloon with its ever watching radar that the Americans had hoisted over Grand Bahama to probe for boats or aircraft smuggling drugs , that the Maggot again spoke , and by then he had recaptured all his old insouciance . |
| 28 | We saw the others ahead , waiting in a tiny square with a fountain and a single tree . |
| 29 | We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out . |
| 30 | Because of the in-house nature of separatism , we saw the conferences as opportunities to disseminate our beliefs to huge numbers of women . |