Example sentences of "saw [was/were] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 2 | But as usual all I saw was the hairy form bounding away out of sight round the corner of the house . |
| 3 | ‘ What I saw was the first draft of the first letter . |
| 4 | The first film I saw was The Great Caruso , starring Mario Lanza . |
| 5 | The first thing she saw was the white dog , back from its stroll , seated on a rag rug in front of a two-bar electric fire , beating its tail leisurely yet rhythmically … thump … thumppp … in time to the slow , pulsing beat of the air on the fiddle . |
| 6 | The first thing she saw was the fresh blood staining his sleeve . |