Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
| 2 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 3 | Elinor said , ‘ I saw Sam for a few minutes , darling . |
| 4 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 5 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
| 6 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her . |
| 8 | Sometimes I saw nyala on the bare mountain-tops but never in the forest . |
| 9 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 10 | I saw Michael on a regular basis in the children 's home to which he returned . |
| 11 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 12 | She saw leaves of the last fall encased inside them and , yes , it was cold , but there was a fine frosty light , and the mist over the lake made her think of a stoat 's white fur . |
| 13 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 14 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 15 | Britain , though , was still prepared to offer little , for she saw Egypt as a vital strategic position in the post-war world , and agitation broke out once more , with Zaghlul again exiled . |
| 16 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
| 17 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 18 | A survey of 17 major organisations that had shown interest in joining TOPP , but had later decided not to go ahead , found that although many were still enthusiastic and hoped to set up a scheme at some time in the future , several of them saw cost as a major deterrent . |
| 19 | They saw nationalism as a bourgeois movement , but also as a danger to the working-class movement , which might become tainted by nationalist tendencies . |
| 20 | As the Vikings rowed their warships round the north of Scotland , past Cape Wrath , their ‘ turning point ’ , down the ragged west coast of their ‘ South Land ’ , they saw Suilven as a single , dramatic pillar ; and they named it Sul Val , the pillar mountain . |
| 21 | They saw similarities with the Malaysian Bumiputra system by which ethnic Malays received preferential treatment in business over their Chinese compatriots . |
| 22 | Although he saw selection as a plausible hypothesis that confirmed the scientist 's right to investigate the question , he had major reservations about the mechanism and preferred to believe that evolution occurred through saltations or leaps produced by some mechanism internal to the organism . |
| 23 | When Charles knelt to support him , he saw tears in the sick man 's eyes . |
| 24 | He saw service in the Baltic Republics and earned a special commendation for his analysis of the situation among the ethnic groups . |
| 25 | Haley cheerfully explained , as no successor could have dared after , say , 1965 , that he saw society as a cultural pyramid , slowly aspiring upwards . |
| 26 | He was on the pavement , waiting , when he saw Volkov on the opposite side of the road . |
| 27 | He saw movement at the far side of the field , close by a dark-leafed wood . |
| 28 | Durkheim 's investigations into religion , with their historic results , were prompted by the fact that he saw religion as the major source of values and , despite increasing secularisation , religion still plays an influential role in society 's moral codes . |
| 29 | In 1955 he wrote to Philip Mairet , to whom he had dedicated Notes towards the Definition of Culture , stressing that he saw ritual as an essential element in life . |
| 30 | He saw God as a glorified combination of boat and helicopter , not unlike Jules Verne 's The Terror . |