Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw armies of beautiful women all heading in that direction . ’ |
| 2 | And she added : ‘ I saw Kenneth in many , many lights . |
| 3 | The last time I saw prisons like that was in northern Iraq , when the Kurds were knocking down doors and killing guards , freeing men and women who had seen daylight in years . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you know , I thought I saw yams on one of the vegetable stalls as we were coming along , ’ said Lady Selvedge . |
| 5 | She saw splinters of bright , sharp , angry light . |
| 6 | She saw shades of grey where they seemed to see none — complications , contradictions . |
| 7 | As she slammed the car door she saw curtains at lighted windows twitching up and down the road . |
| 8 | When we went down the south of France we saw lizards like that on the walls . |
| 9 | We saw Eliot off that evening , not too late , because we knew he was an early riser who went to morning Mass . |
| 10 | They saw conditions at all levels of education worsening . |
| 11 | They saw things from different perspectives . |
| 12 | Rice paddies stretched away endlessly on either side of the ship , and they saw crowds of Annamese in cone-shaped hats of palm leaf already at work , sometimes wading waist-deep in the muddy water . |
| 13 | A visit was made to the where they saw rumens at close quarters . |
| 14 | After seeing action in the Suez campaign of 1956 , it saw service with 57S in a training role , with the remainder of its service life being spent with 14 Flotille , the last Aeronavale unit to use the type , before being retired in 1964 . |
| 15 | Newcastle Emlyn Castle was built in approximately 1240 within a loop on the River Teifi and it saw action in 1648 when it was blown up by Cromwell 's men . |
| 16 | He saw service in both world wars , having been called back to the RAF reserve when the Second World War broke out and stayed in until 1947 . |
| 17 | Along the western coast , on the shores of island , rock and cliff he saw cushions of pink sea thrift on rocks where lichens of yellow and red and green made each ancient rock a beauty in itself . |
| 18 | Perhaps he saw Erik on those stairs , and wanted to help us . ’ |