Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw her with black hair and I told her it was great , but she prefers to be blonde . |
| 2 | I saw her at six the following evening . |
| 3 | I mean I saw her at eleven o'clock at night going jogging with a plastic bag wrapped around her arms . |
| 4 | she looks really weird without them on and I saw her like this |
| 5 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 6 | I saw him at eight o'clock . |
| 7 | I saw him with that Jones girl , ’ answered his sister Dorothy . |
| 8 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 9 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 10 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 11 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 12 | I saw something in that hall tonight which I have kept secret . |
| 13 | ‘ And I shall need a bigger wardrobe ; I think I saw one in that other bedroom . ’ |
| 14 | Once I saw myself as one of a brilliant band of aid workers . |
| 15 | I was very happy there , not just because I 'd won but also because the crown was very nice to me and I saw lots of Portuguese people . |
| 16 | I saw lots of British people all over the stadium , waving huge Union Jacks . |
| 17 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |
| 18 | And I saw it before that , about , yeah about eight as well . |
| 19 | I saw it in one of the papers , but did nt see it on the day . |
| 20 | well I 've never got any , I saw it in this shop |
| 21 | But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’ |
| 22 | On my way back downstairs I saw you in one of the bedrooms with Melanie . ’ |
| 23 | What on earth would she think if she saw her in this ridiculous get-up ? |
| 24 | As she turned she saw him with startling clarity , brightly instantaneous as a camera flash . |
| 25 | She saw him at last , but she did n't signal back , she clutched her bag and froze , staring , and the man beside her turned round . |
| 26 | She saw him in all his beauty , grace and arrogance — physically the most nearly perfect human being she had ever seen . |
| 27 | She saw him from fifty yards away , coming towards her ; then he spotted her and when they came together he was smiling and had a hand outstretched with which he took her elbow . |
| 28 | He was as sensitive about his body as a proud owner of its pet 's and was perpetually asking her to look inside his ear to see whether there was something amiss — she saw nothing but pink perfection — and wondering about the freshness of his lungs in the atmosphere — she assumed that they were like his ears — and surveying the immaculateness , the flatness of his belly in her long wall mirror with its carved , wooden frame . |
| 29 | Whichever way her life was goin' she would never have it soft again , not as she saw it at this present moment . |
| 30 | She saw it as one of the major manifestations of eighteenth-century philanthropic puritanism . |