Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] saw [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was a bairn I loathed and feared these dogs , and as my parents often liked to get rid of me I used to stay for short holidays with both uncles , and so I saw more of the dogs than I liked . |
| 2 | Not everyone saw this as an ‘ explosion ’ as such , but those commentators who did , like the much-quoted Thomas Malthus , prophesied disaster if the growth could n't be controlled ; how was the country to survive when there were hundreds of thousands of extra mouths to feed every year ? |
| 3 | Then he saw one of the boys turn his back on the man he seemed to be dancing with , hook his fingers in the skimpy underpants , wriggle them down to reveal his bottom and then wiggle the bottom until it shook like a jelly . |
| 4 | Then he saw one of the men pull out a machete from his deep-lined overcoat pocket . |
| 5 | the same sort of thing that Noel bought last year when he saw one of the men in the village , using it to pull out a lot of weed from undergrowth , really |