Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Let ’ rule has stood since 1880 without too much fuss and I think I might get annoyed if I saw the fifth set in a Wimbledon final decided by a serve which simply hit the net and ‘ died ’ on the receiver 's side . |
| 2 | Away to the right I saw the flat gleam of the loch . |
| 3 | I saw the hired hand from M. Deloche 's farm coming across the field with it in his hand . |
| 4 | He started up at my scream and I saw the dark blood on him and on me . |
| 5 | ‘ or disorderly behaviour ’ This point can be proved by a description in the police officer 's statement of evidence such as , ‘ I saw the accused push into a queue of football supporters ’ or ‘ I saw the accused jumping over flower containers in the Market Place ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ or disorderly behaviour ’ This point can be proved by a description in the police officer 's statement of evidence such as , ‘ I saw the accused push into a queue of football supporters ’ or ‘ I saw the accused jumping over flower containers in the Market Place ’ . |
| 7 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 8 | When visiting a church on the south coast , I saw the following notice for the Young Wives ' Social Evening : ‘ If your husband has nothing on , bring him along to join in the fun ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In the fort I saw the finest set of buildings in the world — but no one was caring for them . |
| 10 | I did n't realise she was getting married in the church opposite the shop until I saw the life-size versions of the figures appear one morning — including this labrador in a pink dress ! ’ |
| 11 | Then I saw the spare figure of Captain Robins walking towards me , bag in hand : even on land after such a short voyage he had the kind of rolling gait that proclaimed him a man of the sea . |
| 12 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 13 | There was a lock of Caroline 's hair to be cut , and plaster casts of her face and hands to be taken : ‘ I saw the great paws of those louts touching her and covering her face with plaster . |
| 14 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 15 | And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar , I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea , edge to edge , with a perfect and unmarked closeness , in one levelled floor half brown , half blue under the enormous dome of the sky ( 3 ) . |
| 16 | I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’ |
| 17 | I saw the rolled-up rug under the workbench and it was a few seconds before I realized that she was n't inside it any more . |
| 18 | I saw the frightened horses on the edge of a steep drop . |
| 19 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 20 | Every time I looked in the mirror — and I can be a very careful driver if I want to be — I saw the languid bride with shuttered eyes and hair adrift . |
| 21 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 22 | I saw the candle-lit flash of the little star at her throat ; saw too that to contrive a longer stay would only put her under further pressure . |
| 23 | Fanshawe was giving a kind of war whoop as , through the grey fumes , I saw the unmistakable figure of Quigley . |
| 24 | Now I saw the full implications of the concessions I had made , and how compromised I had become . |
| 25 | I was in the United States when the invasion of Iraq the invasion of Iraq into Iran , and I saw the whole situation with the aid of erm the United States mass media , so actually erm I had different ideas about erm what is the outcome and what is the results of the erm invasion was , and I took erm throughout the conflict I took an opposing view , because I always viewed the Iraquis as being aggressor and they inflicted damaged to a neighbouring country and erm they had erm no whatsoever rights to do anything like that and we see it again when erm they invaded Kuwait , they have no right at all erm they it is just the policy of the governing body of the Iraqui regime . |
| 26 | I conjured up a vivid representation of the plushy murk in the Theatre Royal , I saw the shiny tip of the hypodermic gleaming against the dark fabric of The Fat Controller 's trouser leg . |
| 27 | ‘ I could hear their croaking and their arguments and they came ever nearer until suddenly out of the mist I saw the grey shadow of a wing and wet spike of a beak . |
| 28 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
| 29 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 30 | Then I saw the top tier of the cake and that has got to be the er piece , piece de resistance I think as the French say and I know that some very exciting ideas are coming out of the South East region . |