Example sentences of "[adv] saw [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suddenly saw her as the shuttlecock in the game her husband is playing with his inamorata . |
| 2 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 3 | His parents were Anglo-Welsh , his father a beer-drinking , musical miner killed in a pit accident when the boy was fourteen ; his mother dogged , the one who bound a steel hoop of gentility around her Philip , the one who somehow saw him to the University of Wales from which he emerged aged twenty with a double honours degree in History and Mathematics . |
| 4 | Denis Healey soon saw himself in the role of bridge-builder between the West German government ( which particularly feared any decline in the credibility of nuclear deterrence ) and McNamara who hoped to avoid the first — or at least the early — use of nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | The murder had only occurred ten minutes before , but the old man already saw himself in the role of vital witness , and was polishing the phrases in a story which he would tell many times . |
| 6 | In fact , I just saw him in the flesh , bruised as that might be . ’ |
| 7 | Yes , I just saw you at the crossroads you see |
| 8 | I said to her , ‘ I 'm not willing to argue with you here because it would get me into trouble but if I ever saw you on the street I would ’ . |
| 9 | Tony Soper was Nature 's early-riser and this programme suggested it is something of a habit with him , for we also saw him in the Falklands carrying out an investigation into whether the war — or was it just a conflict ? — had upset the wildlife there . |
| 10 | Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 11 | Perhaps because I always went there in the heat of the afternoon , I rarely saw anyone in the gardens . |
| 12 | What happened was this : Micky stopped getting the lines , turned round in confusion , then presumably saw someone in the wings pointing a gun at him . |
| 13 | It was also important to think what she should wear , for if any of the Governors who had interviewed her only three months ago saw her at the service they would know why she was there . |
| 14 | Nosey reluctantly slunk back to Sharpe , then saw something across the river and gave a bark of warning . |
| 15 | She once again passed Drew in the street at about 5.10 and then saw him at the theatre at 6.30 , when he came into her dressing room to ask if his make-up was correct . |
| 16 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 17 | and I 'd had a and er they , I never saw them on the floor . |
| 18 | I never saw her in the daytime . |
| 19 | Rachaela never saw her in the bath . |
| 20 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 21 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |