Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] saw [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 2 | Strange advert I saw in the week it it was erm |
| 3 | Some of the bogs I saw from the train window had been ‘ harvested ’ , and rows of beehive-shaped ‘ peat cocks ’ stood like haycocks , awaiting collection . |
| 4 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 5 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 6 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 7 | The woman who came in to clean and the old boy who saw to the garden had been instructed to call him ‘ Mr ’ Lewis and he felt very much the heir . |
| 8 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 9 | All the buildings I saw in the complex were well maintained , clean , light and well ventilated . |
| 10 | ‘ That little fat body we saw in the pub one night ? |
| 11 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 12 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 13 | When she arrived at the bus station she saw on the wall behind her bold , splashy writing in foreign characters , Arabic maybe or Urdu , and small , disordered scribbles around the glass faces of the timetables , which , although an irritation , caused Rita no real pain . |
| 14 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 15 | Melissa turned out to be a small , jolly woman , maybe a teacher or a social worker , and the only woman I saw in the camp who wore a wedding ring . |
| 16 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 17 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 18 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 19 | Do you remember that erm woman we saw in the park with those two little girls ? |
| 20 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 21 | and while he was talking to the woman he saw in the hall an elderly woman , and he said to the woman at the door , is that your mother , she said oh yes she 's with me now , she used to live at Woodbridge . |
| 22 | Well they got rid of all those it 's the just cottages I saw round the back . |
| 23 | The description fits the man we saw outside the opera the other night . |
| 24 | I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech . |
| 25 | What was the last thing you saw in the cinema ? |
| 26 | Like them men we saw on the newsreel , ai n't he ? ’ |
| 27 | He fused the dreams of Western socialists with the egalitarian and democratic potential he saw in the peasant commune to create a unique brand of Russian socialism . |
| 28 | Then to everyone 's surprise they saw on the side of the track a little old man perhaps in his seventies , wearing an old-fashioned waistcoat and jacket , standing in a brick arch-shaped embrasure looking anxiously at the train . |
| 29 | The Constable could identify neither of the two women he saw in the doorway of No 17 . |
| 30 | And the hostility she saw in the woman 's eyes made her shudder inwardly . |