Example sentences of "[pron] saw [prep] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon . |
| 2 | ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’ |
| 3 | I saw from the clock that Ben had run 10.03 , not as fast as Carl , who had gone below ten seconds again . |
| 4 | But I saw in the newspaper that , in three weeks , the new young King , Rudolf the Fifth , would have his coronation . |
| 5 | Later I saw in the mirror that the shape of his palm and fingers was etched in dark red on my skin . |
| 6 | And then she saw with a shock that Jan was back . |
| 7 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 8 | If you saw in the paper as I did . |
| 9 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 10 | Indeed , we saw at the beginning that this was the principal reason for culture in the first place : it was a means of containing such anti-social antagonisms in what was , for a gelada-like hominid , a novel mode of subsistence which demanded considerable social cooperation , altruism and restraint . |
| 11 | First , they attacked what they saw as the belles-lettrist and philological establishment within the discipline . |
| 12 | The sources from which the children could find information enabling them to make fullest use of the church study were not confined to what they saw in the booklet nor what they could see and think out for themselves ; a number of people , both inside and outside the school , were enthusiastic and available for consultation . |
| 13 | Firstly , during the negotiations the purchaser will naturally be concerned to be reassured as to what it saw at the outset as being the merits of the proposed acquisition . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 16 | He chose to sleep in Three because it had the best view of the Jubilee Line , unobstructed by trees , and as he came into the room and crossed to the window , he saw beyond the garden and the trees and the rhubarb plantation a silver train speeding southwards . |
| 17 | He saw from the look that crossed Tuathal 's face that he was understood , even before he himself tossed someone his reins and , dismounting , walked down through the men , rallying them ; stopping to talk to the wounded ; lifting from the food-baskets some bread and a piece of mutton in passing . |
| 18 | he saw from the start that Piggy was a clever boy with many qualities , and he did not care about what Piggy looked like , but he knew as well that Piggy was evil like the rest of them . |
| 19 | It was not as easy as that because , when he put his head forward , he saw in the mirror that he was still lifting his chest and arching his back . |
| 20 | He was so moved by what he saw inside the orphange that he felt he had to do something to give the children a better start . |