Example sentences of "and [pron] saw [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 2 | ‘ When the car had gone past me I applied my safety-catch and I saw Private Aindow standing in a firing position ’ . |
| 3 | And I saw one man the fact that he was me uncle do n't make any difference , but he was , and and he was very religious , very Christian man , S Sunday School superintendent . |
| 4 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
| 5 | But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’ |
| 6 | Oh I , I said that to you at the time Robert , I mean I 'll be honest and I saw that document and I nearly died and it 's the way they say it too |
| 7 | It was one of these African leaders who said : ‘ In the war-torn North-East of Rhodesia , I saw white men killed and I saw black men killed . |
| 8 | Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire . |
| 9 | Went and I saw some monkeys though . |
| 10 | And I saw some liquorice root and I said , oh ! |
| 11 | No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it |
| 12 | Now in nineteen er nineteen fifteen , the the of course the War 'd started and I can remember this so well because the day after me birthday er there was a raid , a Zeppelin raid on and I saw this Zeppelin and that day the thirty first of January nineteen fifteen when this raid was , I wen I went to work at six in the morning and I finished work at quarter to nine at night . |
| 13 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 14 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 15 | ‘ We heard the noise of glass falling to the floor and I saw this group of three heading straight for the door . |
| 16 | So when this tour was advertised and I saw three days would be spent in London I just decided to go , that 's all . |
| 17 | ‘ A skivvy ? ’ said her papa , almost disbelieving , and she saw that Mama felt the same . |
| 18 | A slight sudden puff of breeze lifted a thickly leafed branch in front of her and she saw two figures , framed by the foliage at the instant their lips met in a long , smooth , seductive and very mutual kiss . |
| 19 | The Napier Business School gave the Princess a video demonstration of the range of courses , research and services that they offer and she saw new materials developed by the Department of Applied Chemical and Physical Sciences . |
| 20 | And the woman lost her brooch on the way back and she saw this man next morning , he was a policeman in , and he he was too fond of the drink , a and he he was on , he was a railway policeman , and he fell onto the rails , when the train was coming , nobody knows how he how he how he er he lost one arm er about there and the other one about there , both arms but he he survived it . |
| 21 | By the time they reached Coniston and she saw grey stone cottages beside a lake reflecting more of those unbelievable mountains , she knew she was being offered a new world . |
| 22 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 23 | In the term , the only term we needed to explain the whole structure of conscious , unconscious , pre-conscious , was repression and we saw that repression was really a key concept . |
| 24 | Then we went on a nature ramble and we saw two men cows doing it . |
| 25 | No one even pretends that is enough , and we saw several children with the shrunken limbs and wrinkled faces of marasmus . |
| 26 | Then I was in another ship , three years ago , and we saw this island . |
| 27 | ‘ Me and my sister and my uncle — my sister , who 's a scientist , right ? — we were walking along and we saw this light go across the sky , then it stopped and made this complete square , then it was gone . ’ |
| 28 | And erm we went on an elephant on a safari and we looked for erm wild animals and we saw some rhinos , and that was quite good fun . |
| 29 | that 's where we went and we saw those lads who 'd be about our age , so funny , right one night |
| 30 | And they saw each other out of work , too . |