Example sentences of "[pron] saw it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I know they show cards like this in one of the stores , I saw it on the way over here . ’ |
2 | It 's up there , I saw it on the door last night . |
3 | I saw it on the board this morning . |
4 | I saw it on the telly before I was banged up . |
5 | I saw it on the thing actually , yeah . |
6 | I think I saw it on the news thirty five thousand pounds somebody . |
7 | ‘ I saw it at the doctor 's on the board — an ’ I wrote it down after last week — I did n't know what else to do . |
8 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
9 | I saw it as a kid |
10 | I saw it as a choice of what I believed to be my obligations , how I see motherhood . |
11 | I saw it as a disaster and it happened , but I did n't think it would be such a hello-goodbye thing as it turned out to be . ’ |
12 | ‘ I saw it in a magazine and blew the picture up on a colour photocopier . ’ |
13 | But , what does this new dance mean after scoring — I saw it in a number of games ? |
14 | ‘ But Alexander 's death , I saw it in the water , in the reflecting bowl . ’ |
15 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
16 | I saw it in the Herald and Post . |
17 | ‘ Of course it is ; I saw it in the register . |
18 | I saw it in the back of Private Eye . |
19 | Susan , that letter — I saw it in the fire . |
20 | ‘ I saw it in the paper , and I 've never been so pleased about anything in all my life . ’ |
21 | Yeah , well I , I I saw it in the paper . |
22 | I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’ |
23 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
24 | He had inherited a view of the cross which saw it as the place where Christ did something which changed God 's mind about human beings . |
25 | She saw it for a second , then it went behind a wave , and came up again . |
26 | And help was forthcoming , for there was a whole row of somehow familiar books , and the name on the back , she could just decipher it , was Candida something , why yes , of course , Candida Gray , she saw it with a flash of inspiration , for it had never occurred to her to look for a surname other than the one that she already knew . |
27 | She saw it as an opportunity to take control of her life and set about tackling the crisis with positive thinking . |
28 | She had forgotten or erased his face , and so she saw it through a blur , but his body was naked , exactly as she had remembered it , golden-white , muscular and slender , the black mass at the groin and out of it the penis rising dark amber-red . |
29 | But as you know a woman come , we , she saw it in the Post Office in the meantime and we sold it . |
30 | Yeah , of course you saw it as a kid , did n't you ? |