Example sentences of "i see a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a girl not much older than her battered and dying in a hospital bed , not twenty-four hours since . |
| 2 | Well no , I I just carried on cos I saw a space there , that 's all . |
| 3 | I saw a wheelchair there one day and I know |
| 4 | Forty years ago I saw a friend off at Paddington , bound for Totnes . |
| 5 | I saw a psychiatrist often during my stay , up to once a day , although the sessions seemed more like informal chats . |
| 6 | Mr er I think I saw a smile there , why were you smiling ? |
| 7 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw a man here the other day . |
| 9 | As an aside , I saw a cartoon yesterday which had to guys in a bar reading the newspaper in the year 2023 . |
| 10 | I saw a boy up in one of the trees . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw a boy up there with plaster all down his cheek . |
| 12 | Well I saw a sending off yesterday on television that er I thought was nowhere near as severe as that and I must say that he 's a very luck man Stan . |
| 13 | I saw a newspaper there . |
| 14 | True , her face was perfect of feature , but I thought I saw a coldness there , a pinched look about the mouth , which a younger man might have missed . |
| 15 | S. H. Patrolling up Prescot Road during the war , if I saw a light on , I used to shout , ‘ Put that bloody light out , ’ and if nobody put the light out , we used to let fly with a brick . |
| 16 | I saw a rainbow today . |
| 17 | I thought I saw a packet then . |
| 18 | I saw a programme recently about the selection of women parliamentary candidates . |
| 19 | ‘ When I saw a stage-play instead of a sermon on the Lord 's days … and heard little preaching but what was … against the Puritans , I was glad to be gone . ’ |
| 20 | But I saw a doctor there , a Doctor , |
| 21 | I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles . |
| 22 | When I was studying I went to Open Air Theatre and I saw a version there on Christopher er what 's his name that chubby fellow with the glasses Christopher Biggins that 's it . |
| 23 | When I was studying I went to Open Air Theatre and I saw a version there on Christopher er what 's his name that chubby fellow with the glasses Christopher Biggins that 's it . |
| 24 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 25 | Once I saw a woman there full of grief . |
| 26 | It was not until I saw a sailor much smaller than myself performing in a Force 6 that it dawned on me that the answer must lie in a good technique . |
| 27 | ‘ I saw a book here that might interest you , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Sometimes , when driving through a strange place , usually on the outskirts of a town , I see a building immediately recognizable as a prison . |
| 29 | Whilst there is always someone I can go to with a problem , on most occasions I see a case through from start to finish ’ . |
| 30 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |