Example sentences of "you saw the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |
| 2 | Then , of course , you saw the development of the kind of tycoon trustee who wanted not only his own wing but in extreme cases to appoint his own curator to that wing . |
| 3 | So you saw the cowboy in the spaghetti western on the cover of the last magazine , well it seems that the only way was up for Steve Perry from Pest Control , Birmingham South . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mind you , if you saw the state of his shirts , you might agree that a little mollycoddling was in order . |
| 6 | I 'm afraid you saw the beginning of it . |
| 7 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 8 | Then you would know when you saw the chap in the 1984 Cortina he was the company 's worst driver . |
| 9 | You saw the shadow of the mountain and you let it into the cave and the fire has gone out . |
| 10 | It was only when you looked at their faces that you saw the difference in both age and expression : Harry 's face was round , his eyes merry , while Joe 's features inclined to length and his grey eyes , which at times seemed colourless , had in their depths a touch of melancholy that had deepened with the years . |
| 11 | Nodding his head , Aplin asked , ‘ Is that why you 'd been drinking , the night before you saw the robbery on Handley Plain ? ’ |
| 12 | " But you saw the strain on his features ? " |
| 13 | Yes , it 's a long flight , thirteen hours , and the delay of course , well it 's a problem getting the parts … watch out for that spider , yes they do bite , but they 're very rarely fatal , no , termites are relatively harmless , you saw the mound in the garden did you ? |