Example sentences of "but [pron] saw [adj] [noun] " 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 | PC Kelly went on : ‘ I did not hear anything but I saw two flashes from the barrel of the gun and I presumed he had shot Goodman twice . ’ |
| 3 | But she saw little hope in that notion . |
| 4 | Helen Gardner was not a deep thinker , but she saw certain things more clearly than many sharper minds . |
| 5 | She did n't exactly replace it with a thump , but she saw fitzAlan glance at her before he sat up cautiously . |
| 6 | Hardly a day went by but she saw some lass or other picked up by them snots . |
| 7 | But we saw two slices of great skill for his goals . ’ |
| 8 | There was a lot of sympathy for the concept , but we saw real difficulties about enshrining it in the planning machinery without far more information about how one would take the concept of sustainable development forward in district plans . |
| 9 | But he saw Central America as a new stumbling block . |
| 10 | 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 . |