Example sentences of "[pron] saw [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I saw her with black hair and I told her it was great , but she prefers to be blonde .
2 I was very happy there , not just because I 'd won but also because the crown was very nice to me and I saw lots of Portuguese people .
3 I saw lots of British people all over the stadium , waving huge Union Jacks .
4 As she turned she saw him with startling clarity , brightly instantaneous as a camera flash .
5 He was as sensitive about his body as a proud owner of its pet 's and was perpetually asking her to look inside his ear to see whether there was something amiss — she saw nothing but pink perfection — and wondering about the freshness of his lungs in the atmosphere — she assumed that they were like his ears — and surveying the immaculateness , the flatness of his belly in her long wall mirror with its carved , wooden frame .
6 who saw themselves as sexual outlaws , rose to defend the rights of people with proscribed sexualities to seek self-determination for their bodies .
7 When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists .
8 Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together .
9 I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow .
10 One saw it in extreme form in the 1960s , with Alan Sharp and Archie Hind , and in a quiet way with William McIlvanney .
11 Daniel Defoe journeyed this way in 1724 and when he passed through Settle , he noted : ‘ … we saw nothing but high mountains , which had a terrible aspect . ’
12 We saw him at Old Trafford
13 well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ?
14 I am not sure that we would think the dancing , except by some of the principals , quite so wonderful by today 's standards , but we saw it with different eyes then , and John would have for comparison his memories of the Cape Town Ballet Club 's brave but handicapped attempt at the last act of the ballet , Aurora 's Wedding .
15 They saw them as fertile slopes on which to grow tea and coffee , as well as a cool and pleasant place to live when it became uncomfortably hot nearer sea level .
16 They saw themselves as secondary earners , supplementing the male wage earner ( all but one were married ) .
17 When they considered social and economic factors they saw themselves as detached scientists just ‘ presenting the facts ’ and not ( as Taft ( 1942 , p. 634 ) put it ) aiming ‘ to determine what is the major social good ’ .
18 Asked whether they saw themselves as feminist film-makers , for example , the four ( predictably ) came up with four different answers ranging from an unequivocal ‘ yes ’ to an almost indignant ‘ no ’ .
19 On his second voyage , in the winter ( May–June 1819 ) , he saw nothing of New South Shetland .
20 This was certainly a strange case , but he had not known the Pitts and he saw plenty of messy deaths .
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