Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 2 | It sounded well enough until they saw the size of the rations . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's only since we saw the video that we found out whose boot it was . |
| 4 | Annie laughed aloud as she saw the look on Billy 's face . |
| 5 | They were all crossing together when they saw the skid , the boy on the motorbike , out of control and ploughing towards the sedate black Morris Minor . |
| 6 | Only when she saw the outline of a man 's head in a peaked cap sitting in the driver 's seat was the mystery explained . |
| 7 | ‘ He said , ‘ I was dying for a pint so when I saw the pub I decided to land and come in . ’ ‘ |
| 8 | It would be best if you saw the boy yourself . ’ |
| 9 | Luther looked deep into the boy 's eyes and smiled wickedly when he saw the truth lurking there . |
| 10 | Her voice died away when she saw the strain on Jenna 's face and she came round the bed , her eyes racing over Jenna 's pale face . |
| 11 | Peeping up at him , she just as quickly looked away when she saw the devilry in his eyes . |
| 12 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 13 | Anyway when I saw the fire |
| 14 | She checked only momentarily when she saw the chaos in the room . |
| 15 | She mopped herself up , then eyed him uncertainly as she saw the set , cold expression on his face . |
| 16 | They took ship as soon as they saw the way things were going in 1934 . |
| 17 | As soon as they saw the car , which had a police sign on the roof , they quietened down . |
| 18 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
| 19 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 20 | She also left the book undisturbed but felt , as soon as she saw the title , a further fellow feeling with S. Kettering . |
| 21 | She just went haywire as soon as she saw the instructor . |
| 22 | She stopped as soon as she saw the effect of her words . |
| 23 | But as soon as she saw the tooth , she lost interest . |
| 24 | As soon as he saw the horizon , Jack centralised the joystick and rudder , getting back to level flight . |
| 25 | But they did not have to search far for the Bishop 's secretary : as soon as he saw the pageant wagon , he bore down on it . |
| 26 | As soon as I saw the file , I knew it was the one I had stolen from Joe , and I knew that this man knew my convict . |
| 27 | Troy stood completely still when he saw the mother and baby . |
| 28 | They had spilled halfway across the road , and although most of them shuffled quickly aside when they saw the car approaching , four boys gathered themselves quickly into a group and remained standing defiantly in its path . |
| 29 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 30 | He looked round sharply then exhaled deeply when he saw the man 's face peering in at him . |