Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon .
2 ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’
3 ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’
4 I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech .
5 I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show .
6 And there he was , I went to look and I saw at the end there , a big pile of erm earth fresh earth you know .
7 He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time .
8 I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon .
9 Stooping , what I saw of the valley were glimpses of a richly farmed landscape and a dark brown river , all imbued with a hazy crepuscular Tuscan light .
10 From what I saw of the match he played well .
11 From the little I saw of the game Ipswich seemed quite content with standing inside their own penalty box and only closing down people when they got within 2 yards of it .
12 But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly .
13 I saw on a church bill-board recently the familiar statement , ‘ Wise men still seek Christ ’ .
14 ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once .
15 No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night
16 She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way .
17 Now I know what I saw on the bridge ! ’
18 I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning .
19 He assures me we both , from what he and I saw on the spot , can go beyond what Jerome himself knows . ’
20 A belated attempt at abdomen-straining brought it swimming back into fuzzy focus , but that dial was all I saw during the remainder of an interminable fast-jet loop .
21 I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey .
22 I saw from the clock that Ben had run 10.03 , not as fast as Carl , who had gone below ten seconds again .
23 In fact , I saw from the station clock that I had timed my arrival just about perfectly .
24 I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to .
25 What I saw from the air was a new runway , freshly mown and very inviting .
26 Some of the bogs I saw from the train window had been ‘ harvested ’ , and rows of beehive-shaped ‘ peat cocks ’ stood like haycocks , awaiting collection .
27 Later , I saw by a date in a book that she was not yet eighteen .
28 But I saw in the newspaper that , in three weeks , the new young King , Rudolf the Fifth , would have his coronation .
29 ‘ I was going to , but I saw in the newspaper the next morning that he had died . ’
30 erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another .
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