Example sentences of "[pron] saw [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Er , I saw between the sixteen to twenty year olds , there 's nowhere in the town where they can go and meet very easily , other than the pubs , this causes trouble .
2 Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon .
3 I find it difficult to put what I saw into words .
4 My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern .
5 I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence , and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from , but inherent in , my own immaterial nature .
6 ‘ The company had a very cosy club atmosphere , which I found quite difficult to cope with in terms of what I saw as a lack of professionalism . ’
7 I had been what I saw as a stop-gap anchor-man for Report , the teatime news programme , for less than eighteen months .
8 ‘ But what I saw as the character and what they the writers saw did n't match up at all . ’
9 The fixed positions that I saw with you
10 ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’
11 ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’
12 Harley was next and I saw with interest that he had a new caddie who was unknown to me .
13 She was the first patient I saw with pseudochyluria .
14 As I turned forward again I saw with alarm that we were running into apparently broken water .
15 It jumped easily over the rocks and I saw with horror the monster that I had created .
16 Now , I saw with surprise , it was a kind of smoking-room .
17 ‘ I went to Paris and I saw with my own eyes — either that or I was young and I dreamt it all — workers and students and young people together , fighting , helping each other-socialism was on the streets . ’
18 I saw with my own eyes .
19 Ooh I saw with Jordan .
20 He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time .
21 But I saw at once that this was not what Mrs Girdlestone wanted to hear .
22 I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech .
23 Filmer , I saw at once , was placed opposite Mercer Lorrimore .
24 When I first met John Hurt in 1977 , when he was in Devon filming The Shout , I saw at first hand how much he drank .
25 I saw at once he 'd been drinking .
26 Thus I saw at first hand the developing excitement within the scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon .
27 I had an image of GLF existing through meeting people and talking to them , but the only physical evidence I saw at that time was badges saying GLF .
28 Of his picture of refuse — at once alluring and repellant — Penn writes : ‘ Evening as I walked from my studio to the train station I saw at my feet a treasure of the city 's refuse , intriguing distorted forms of colour , stains and typography .
29 I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show .
30 I 've a feeling that they might be the same lot that I saw at Geraldine 's party last month .
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