Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] saw [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few that did live near the quarry tended to wander off hurriedly in the opposite direction whenever they saw a nome . |
| 2 | It was getting to the point that whenever he saw a policeman sauntering along the crowded streets he chose for his phone calls his stomach turned over . |
| 3 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 4 | She then contacted any other service-providers who appeared to be involved with the client , to ask them what help they were providing , and how they saw the client 's needs . |
| 5 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
| 6 | The glory dwindled into a nuisance , a practical difficulty , since that was how he saw a child . |
| 7 | A witness in the Akers Way trial has told how he saw a car flip over and land upside down in a hedge in the crash in which five young people were killed . |
| 8 | The right hon. Member for Henley ( Mr. Hesletine ) , the present Secretary of State for the Environment , laid out how he saw the development of local government . |
| 9 | But this week I went along to ‘ the other Headingley ’ where he plies his trade week-in , week-out to talk to him about his hopes and ambitions and how he saw the season panning out for his big-spending club . |
| 10 | ‘ The idea came to me during September 1991 when I saw a pile of waste paper being loaded into a contractor 's vehicle at the back of 36 St Andrew Square . |
| 11 | It was only when I saw a magazine produced by his students ' class that I relaxed . |
| 12 | I was about to take off my load and leave the heap of pine-needles for someone else to find in the morning when I saw a figure approaching in the distance . |
| 13 | Still , sometimes when I saw a camera lifted to a scene I would like to have shared back home , I felt a twinge of loss and was suddenly conscious of my idle hands , like someone who has recently given up smoking . |
| 14 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 15 | It was a great thing the other day when I saw the combine harvester coming up the glen . |
| 16 | I went into the hall and that 's when I saw the rope . ’ |
| 17 | I also experienced it ( it came upon me ) when I signed the marriage register as well as when I saw the pig slaughtered . |
| 18 | I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality . |
| 19 | I was glancing through the personal column of the Church Times when I saw an advertisement for ‘ a curate in poor health ’ — those were the very words — to accompany two elderly ladies on an Italian tour , all expenses paid . ’ |
| 20 | in Barcelona , where I saw a sign |
| 21 | ‘ Do you think that was where I saw the body ? |
| 22 | That 's partly why I saw no reason to doubt they were related . |
| 23 | That was when she saw the diary . |
| 24 | Jaqueline Holliday , of Windsor Road , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , told Cleveland coroner Michael Sheffield she was waiting to turn right into Oxford Road when she saw the man . |
| 25 | Then you would know when you saw the chap in the 1984 Cortina he was the company 's worst driver . |
| 26 | Refer to where you saw the vacancy advertised . |
| 27 | Mrs Olive Davis , 47 , was walking home with her husband , Joe , 59 , when they saw the crash and she spoke of how Mr Swales died in her arms . |
| 28 | It was only when they saw the picture on the cover of a magazine — on their 38th wedding anniversary — that they realised their kiss had been captured forever . |
| 29 | They might prefer to work out a general letter and simply insert the details such as where they saw the job advertised and the name given to the vacancy advertised . |
| 30 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ Minton teased Tindle when he saw the painting in the studio at Hamilton Terrace , ‘ but it 's too late to change the floorboards now . ’ |