Example sentences of "but [pron] saw [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure .
2 But she saw little hope in that notion .
3 She did n't exactly replace it with a thump , but she saw fitzAlan glance at her before he sat up cautiously .
4 Hardly a day went by but she saw some lass or other picked up by them snots .
5 But he saw natural selection as less important than the Lamarckian mechanism in which self-improvements resulting from the individual 's response to environmental challenge are inherited and thus accumulate to change the species .
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