Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] saw [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 2 | Strange advert I saw in the week it it was erm |
| 3 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 4 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 5 | Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon . |
| 6 | The woman who came in to clean and the old boy who saw to the garden had been instructed to call him ‘ Mr ’ Lewis and he felt very much the heir . |
| 7 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 8 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 9 | Although a lifelong Labour voter , influenced by the poverty she saw as a teacher , Mrs Hughes spoke of how Mrs Thatcher ‘ gave me a lovely tour of No 10 and I thought she was such a nice person ’ . |
| 10 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 11 | ‘ That little fat body we saw in the pub one night ? |
| 12 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 13 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 14 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 15 | When she arrived at the bus station she saw on the wall behind her bold , splashy writing in foreign characters , Arabic maybe or Urdu , and small , disordered scribbles around the glass faces of the timetables , which , although an irritation , caused Rita no real pain . |
| 16 | The acting he saw as a boy was at the local cinema , popularly known as the ‘ Cach ’ — the ‘ Shithouse ’ . |
| 17 | Melissa turned out to be a small , jolly woman , maybe a teacher or a social worker , and the only woman I saw in the camp who wore a wedding ring . |
| 18 | Do you remember that erm woman we saw in the park with those two little girls ? |
| 19 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 20 | and while he was talking to the woman he saw in the hall an elderly woman , and he said to the woman at the door , is that your mother , she said oh yes she 's with me now , she used to live at Woodbridge . |
| 21 | The description fits the man we saw outside the opera the other night . |
| 22 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 23 | I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech . |
| 24 | What was the last thing you saw in the cinema ? |
| 25 | He fused the dreams of Western socialists with the egalitarian and democratic potential he saw in the peasant commune to create a unique brand of Russian socialism . |
| 26 | Then to everyone 's surprise they saw on the side of the track a little old man perhaps in his seventies , wearing an old-fashioned waistcoat and jacket , standing in a brick arch-shaped embrasure looking anxiously at the train . |
| 27 | And the hostility she saw in the woman 's eyes made her shudder inwardly . |
| 28 | The chap you saw in the druid outfit got them going again and he 's still the king-pin . ’ |
| 29 | Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see . |