Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adv] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem . |
| 2 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |
| 3 | He was in all the dailies , and you probably saw the TV coverage . |
| 4 | ‘ And you never saw the Crocus List ? ’ |
| 5 | Maggie did see , and she also saw the way Candace clung to Felipe 's arm , laughing and talking as if her husband did not exist . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's mine and we just saw the dog walking off with it , ’ the golfer replied . |
| 7 | As revered advisers to the tribes , the Druids had a very strong political influence , and they clearly saw the advance of Rome as a serious threat to their power and a challenge to their authority . |
| 8 | But I also saw the blood and noise of war . |
| 9 | But you never saw the king of beasts clap his forepaws nor balance a ball on his nose ! |
| 10 | But she only saw the girl who had now returned her full attention to the case . |
| 11 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 12 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 13 | ‘ There was nice stuff written during that era but it never saw the light of day . |