Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] saw a [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The glory dwindled into a nuisance , a practical difficulty , since that was how he saw a child . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | It was only when I saw a magazine produced by his students ' class that I relaxed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | in Barcelona , where I saw a sign |
| 13 | Sir George visited the Cookson Street area of Liverpool , where he saw a row of empty houses which are to be converted into bungalows and flats by Liverpool Housing Trust . |