Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i saw [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | It was only when I saw a magazine produced by his students ' class that I relaxed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was a great thing the other day when I saw the combine harvester coming up the glen . |
| 7 | I went into the hall and that 's when I saw the rope . ’ |
| 8 | I also experienced it ( it came upon me ) when I signed the marriage register as well as when I saw the pig slaughtered . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | in Barcelona , where I saw a sign |
| 12 | ‘ Do you think that was where I saw the body ? |
| 13 | That 's partly why I saw no reason to doubt they were related . |