Example sentences of "[pron] saw [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unfortunate that the verse saga ascribed to Llywarch Hen , which celebrates Cynddylan 's defence of the River Tern in Shropshire on the Powys border and laments the destruction of his residence at Pengwern , situated perhaps on the Wrekin or at nearby Wrockwardine , is essentially unhistorical , but the statement , ‘ I saw armies on the ground of the field of Cogwy [ Maes Cogwy ] and the battle full of affliction : Cynddylan was an ally ’ , may possess value as an independent fragment . |
| 2 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |
| 3 | They are but not as I saw things at the time — I did n't think I would marry . |
| 4 | " He asked me to met him several times a year , I tried to advise him , to tell him how I saw things in the world . " |
| 5 | When I pressed the button there was the ripping noise that was characteristic of the Hurricane 's eight guns and I saw strikes on the fuselage of the Stuka . |
| 6 | Once or twice , she thought she saw things in the periphery of her vision that could n't be there . |
| 7 | A group of refugees rescued from the war in Bosnia and brought to this country have been inundated with offers of help and accommodation.The six families were rescued by a headmaster , who saw pictures of the war on television and decided that he had to do something to help . |
| 8 | We saw bits of the programme here . |
| 9 | Others , however , objected to the replacement of the Schools Council by two unelected bodies ; they saw dangers in the minister ‘ surrounding himself by people of one opinion ’ , and in the ‘ centralized patronage ’ which was said to characterize the new arrangements , and they detected the eclipse of the values of curriculum pluralism for which the Schools Council had stood . |
| 10 | However , the CITUB announced that it would continue its strike until it saw guarantees of the character of the new government . |
| 11 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 12 | He saw mountains on the Moon ( very anti-Aristotle this ) , then satellites orbiting Jupiter , which he mapped with such accuracy that his orbital times are hardly different from those calculated today . |
| 13 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 14 | While he spoke , he saw reactions in the child 's face . |
| 15 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 16 | He saw enemies behind every door . |
| 17 | A swell lifted him and he saw men in the cockpit . |