Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] saw [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |
| 2 | Where you saw the pantomime ? |
| 3 | Small details , that make fishing a constant source of delight : a bank of yellow flag by a tiny burn ; where mountain everlasting grow ; secret otter greens ; where we saw a wildcat ; a peregrine 's nest ; rutting red deer ; black-throated divers . |
| 4 | He ran up the street and through the town as far as the main road , where he saw a sign that told him it was just seventy miles from there to London . |
| 5 | Later he spent an hour at the Scottish studies department , which he opened nearly 40 years ago , where he saw a display of Scottish artefacts and heard a rendition of Gaelic songs . |
| 6 | When he heard of the disappearance of Mrs Wilks , 22 , he drove back down the motorway and noted the marker post number where he saw the car . |
| 7 | The wind was only slightly stronger and the reservoir a little choppier , but most of the others were out already and managing fine , so I saw no reason why we could n't do the same . |
| 8 | Once I saw a woman there full of grief . |
| 9 | The normal reason for this is that , although you saw the graphic on the page and it printed correctly on the LaserWriter you copied the publication onto a disk and sent that to the bureau . |
| 10 | Though Nick stared in bewilderment Mr Evans just said , ‘ So you saw the idiot , did you ? ’ |
| 11 | Once you saw the word " prostitution " in a church magazine and asked what it meant , and once " rape " in the newspaper . |
| 12 | Once they saw the set up they thought it was wonderful , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The year 1927 was a good year from several viewpoints , although it saw the death of Sir Anker Simmons ( knighted in 1920 ) , one of the Club 's quartet of founders . |
| 14 | Once he saw a glade , a secret place with a floor of pale , sandy soil . |
| 15 | If no-one saw the caravan being towed along any of the main roads in the area , then Allen believes the gang may have stored it somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 16 | ‘ If I saw a comedy show that was very good , I 'd get depressed , and if I saw something that was very bad , I 'd get depressed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Er like i we if I saw a vase that was a little bit bigger and a bit more expensive than what you 'd have |
| 19 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 20 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ I always liked Dion 's first touch but I still was n't sure until I saw a video of his goals . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All of my fish are from South America and although I find fish from other parts of the world attractive , I have never had any desire to keep them until I saw a Myxocyprinus asiaticus . |
| 24 | I wondered for a moment about this strange near-miss , and what a trout might be doing crossing the road , until I saw a fisherman standing aside , who can only have dropped his slippery catch on the roadway and was waiting to recapture it . |
| 25 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you were exaggerating , ’ Oliver admitted , ‘ until I saw the menace in that fellow 's eyes . ’ |
| 27 | He says : I still was n't sure about him until I saw the video of his goals . |
| 28 | I intended being one of the three people to live in Oxford Street , until I saw the place . |
| 29 | until I saw the apparition |
| 30 | Well no , I I just carried on cos I saw a space there , that 's all . |