Example sentences of "[pron] saw [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most striking facts of the Commonwealth , as I saw clearly at the Commonwealth conference in Harare , is the immense affection and admiration that exists for Her Majesty the Queen among all Commonwealth leaders and countries . |
| 2 | As she stared , she saw out of the corner of her eye a perfectly constructed foil dream . |
| 3 | He was like the bloke who you saw right through the film overseeing the whole operation , just standing there sticking little pins into a map . |
| 4 | Another thing which makes Nanking look less cluttered is the absence of the horse- and donkey-drawn vehicles which one saw all over the place in North China , including the main streets of Peking and Sian . |
| 5 | On this leg of the patrol it was mostly long steams southward with a few breaks for routine rummage , and we saw little in the way of oil related activity . |
| 6 | The concept of structure also has its risks and its dangers , even though it appears to be based on the idea of relations as opposed to entities or determining origins ( as we saw above in the discussion of the Prague School ) . |
| 7 | Unfortunately as we saw earlier with the housing discussions , we are very much a pint pot as the analogy was used and that a quart just ca n't be fitted into it . |
| 8 | If new records are added faster than old records are deleted , the packing of the file will get higher ; as we saw earlier in the chapter , this will cause more synonyms . |
| 9 | As we saw earlier in the book , our culture majors in rationality , while staying fearful and ignorant of human emotions . |
| 10 | Even when he tried to put this matter right , by putting his head forward and up , he was faced with an even greater difficulty because he saw again from the mirror that he was increasing the tension and pulling his head back even further . |
| 11 | Slipping on his gloves , he saw out of the corner of his eye the sun rising above a belt of dark blue . |
| 12 | At the door he saw out of the corner of his eye the black limousine was still there . |
| 13 | ’ When still she made no move , he chuckled and made as if to put the document away again , pausing when he saw out of the corner of his eye that she was returning to the desk , albeit hesitantly . |