Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] saw [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ began Enfield , ‘ I was coming home about three o'clock on a black winter morning , when suddenly I saw two people . |
| 2 | The next morning I was sitting in the garden in the sun when suddenly I saw young Rupert of Hentzau on horse- back coming through the trees towards me . |
| 3 | So we saw this fellow go up to the window and look and then he went and got a stone from the kerb and ‘ bang ’ on the window . |
| 4 | But finally I saw one animal come through the grass to play . |
| 5 | Yesterday we saw some criminals being paraded in public on a lorry , and being ‘ criticised ’ by the crowd . |
| 6 | When he came home we saw each other often . |
| 7 | Thereafter he saw distinguished service in the Peninsular war in Portugal from 1809 under Sir Arthur Wellesley ( later first Duke of Wellington , q.v . ) . |
| 8 | THE only civilian witness to the events surrounding the deaths of two teenage joyriders in Northern Ireland claimed yesterday he saw one soldier attack another . |
| 9 | And the more he tried to visualise her , the more he saw another face . |
| 10 | Two days later I saw dark clouds in the sky , and I knew that a storm was coming . |
| 11 | A little later we saw another cow and then through my glasses I picked up a bull lying down in the distance . |
| 12 | She determined that she , not he , would decide how often they saw each other and how they would occupy their time together . |
| 13 | They will have to answer for the team 's performances and can expect to be closely questioned on how often they saw those performances . |
| 14 | Now he saw another side of her . |
| 15 | Well I saw this present I thought I could find it sort of erm well I suppose I would off everywhere . |
| 16 | Well I saw these skid marks tonight , and I thought well how I did n't realise , until I suddenly realised what had happened that someone |
| 17 | Here I saw several herds of beisa oryx , Soemering 's gazelle , and occasional lesser kudu and gerenuk . |
| 18 | ‘ On my way here I saw wild roses in the hedge . |
| 19 | Today we saw these animals on his land . |
| 20 | Then I saw two men hitting each other , others running , some falling down . |
| 21 | And then I saw another Tedesco . |
| 22 | Then I saw another policeman . |
| 23 | Then I saw another picture : a very old woman ( it was Celia ) searching for the grave of the mother she had abandoned , and coming upon that inscription . |
| 24 | Then I saw another monster . |
| 25 | I looked at lots , and then I saw this fairytale cottage , like something out of Alice In Wonderland . |
| 26 | Then I saw some pictures of these Zamaitis guitars and thought they were such beautiful instruments that I 'd want to try to get one . |
| 27 | During the first few days of the Blitz I had to go to Kings Cross and there I saw whole streams of weary and frightened East Enders pouring through the station , intent only on getting away from the bombing with what bits and pieces of their belongings they had been able to salvage ; with their small children crying and bewildered , and family pets bundled up in rugs or protesting loudly in makeshift cardboard boxes . |
| 28 | Then she saw another door , a door that was only forty centimetres high . |
| 29 | Then she saw Funny Girl , and memorised every part of Barbra Streisand 's performance . |
| 30 | Then we saw those woods erupt into one big ball of flame and a pillar of smoke rose almost to our altitude as that fuel dump went up ’ . |