Example sentences of "[pron] saw [indef pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw something in that hall tonight which I have kept secret . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Any persons who saw anyone on that train looking agitated or with traces of blood , we 'd like to hear from them . |
| 6 | And our love does not depend on anything , though for years we saw nothing of each other , still we should love . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | On his second voyage , in the winter ( May–June 1819 ) , he saw nothing of New South Shetland . |
| 9 | This was certainly a strange case , but he had not known the Pitts and he saw plenty of messy deaths . |