Example sentences of "we saw [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw a Civil Defence exercise in Tyne and Wear where local government officials , obviously not in peak condition , rushed about and contemplated what they were going to do about the rain of megatonne weapons that was being dumped on their ratepayers . |
| 2 | As passed by a Stockton housing estate we saw a young boy who finished climbing a steep embankment just in time to throw stones at us . |
| 3 | As we passed a Stockton housing estate we saw a young boy who finished climbing a steep embankment just in time to throw stones at us . |
| 4 | Thursday , 18th : After the day 's programme , I was invited out by , a local participant , to visit another garden of the Moghul era , where we saw a son-et-lumière celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Jaipur by the Maharajah Jai Singh . |
| 5 | It was Saturday evening as we neared the low-lying reaches of sandy shore and the outlying rocks of Tiree , and the sun was setting peacefully as our steamer came alongside of the stone pier at Scaranish Harbour , and we saw a sand-environed bay with some veteran sloops fixed in the sand — no more to mount o'er the waves of ocean , and spread ample sails to the breeze of heaven — left there , I am told , because it would not be deemed lucky to break them up . |
| 6 | The next day , walking hand in hand through the festive market , we saw a sandwich-board man pushing through the crowds . |
| 7 | We saw a black guy . ’ |
| 8 | In a commune on the outskirts of the city , we saw a new colony of houses being built . |
| 9 | I suppose we saw a good deal of each other , over the ensuing months . |
| 10 | It was a good goal erm they they played well it was a good move it , we we saw a great run by Lewis to get this corner which was a smashing bit of football . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course we saw a great deal of each other . ’ |
| 12 | After a delightful supper we just tottered across the forecourt of the Savoy Grill into the Savoy Theatre — very intimate — and we saw a nice show . |
| 13 | Building on solid foundations it is extremely encouraging to report that last year we saw a dramatic increase in the numbers of candidate entries . |
| 14 | The good , the bad , the criminal , the religious Nicodemus that we saw a few weeks ago , all are sinners . |
| 15 | Just as we saw a few weeks ago Zaccheus was , er , between him being up the tree and hitting the ground , that man was converted . |
| 16 | Farther down the coast we saw a huge kittiwake colony on an inland cliff and went to investigate . |
| 17 | Startled we saw a white face staring in |
| 18 | We saw a considerable number of English , Irish and Israeli children . |
| 19 | Finally , on 16th June , 1703 , we saw a large island with a small piece of land joined to it . |
| 20 | We hear about budgets in all walks of life , indeed we saw a red box only a few days ago . |
| 21 | During the four days we spent on Elgon we saw no other people and only one solitary gazelle . |
| 22 | We saw no more villages , and the river , broken now into narrow channels by low islands , began to curve . |
| 23 | Whilst we also believe increasing amounts of renewable energy must be harnessed in future , our long-standing service to landscape protection meant that we saw the environmental costs of doing this perhaps more clearly than others . |
| 24 | Not that hooligan we saw the other day the one messing about in the dodgems . ’ |
| 25 | , I expect one of those will be alright , were they stripy ones we saw the other day ? |
| 26 | Is that that one we saw the other week ? |
| 27 | JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason . |
| 28 | After the interval we saw The Two Pigeons with Sandra Madgwick , Michael O'Hare , Anita Landa , and Chenca Williams in the leading roles . |
| 29 | And we saw the religious people , the religious men , who erm are the only people that are allowed to smoke drugs , you know , illegal drugs er things like marijuana , they 're actually allowed to because the people view them as half alive and half dead and that was interesting to see . |
| 30 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |