Example sentences of "[pron] saw [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of days I saw Shelly outside . |
| 2 | We continued unimpeded until I saw ahead of me the drawing-room where I had interviewed Mountbatten , and sitting on one of the sofas with his back to us the unmistakable profile and balding head of Prince Charles . |
| 3 | A dip in the hill , much like those at Sulber Nick and Kirkby Nick , led over the crest by an outcrop and as I walked out from the dip I saw ahead of me Raydale with , to my left , Semer Water and Addlebrough behind it . |
| 4 | ‘ After what I saw here today , I do n't believe you 're afraid of anything . ’ |
| 5 | and I saw just how bony my legs were . |
| 6 | For the first time I saw clearly that it would be impossible to go through the rest of my life with a barrier in my mind between the baby and its conception . |
| 7 | But then what — ’ And I stopped as light flooded my mind and I saw clearly the chain of circumstances which connected us . |
| 8 | One of the most striking facts of the Commonwealth , as I saw clearly at the Commonwealth conference in Harare , is the immense affection and admiration that exists for Her Majesty the Queen among all Commonwealth leaders and countries . |
| 9 | I gathered from Anthony ( whom I saw later on Thursday ) that he had neither been asked for his advice nor had volunteered it . |
| 10 | I saw Yet drag himself up , eyes charged with fear , and make for the door to the lower regions . |
| 11 | I saw little actually changing hands , apart from a pedigree pup and a painting . |
| 12 | We stopped briefly at Recife ( which is quite near the equator ) and Rio de Janeiro before coming to Sao Paulo airport , but it was night time at Recife , and it was early morning with an overcast sky at Rio , so I saw little . |
| 13 | I saw today . |
| 14 | The centre , I saw briefly , was occupied by a large boat on blocks , its superstructure covered with lightweight grey plastic sheeting . |
| 15 | Looking over the heads of the children at the end of this tale , I saw slowly coming towards us , a large brown spiky thing as big as a room , with a dozen legs walking slowly and carefully under it . |
| 16 | The card , crudely coloured , showed a picture of a church labelled as St Stephen 's Basilica , although I saw immediately that architecturally it was not a basilica . |
| 17 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 18 | Erm which I saw again in Marks this year which you could wear tucked in with a belt . |
| 19 | I saw Best play a few times . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw exactly what he did and if it had n't been for Stuart those thieves would have got away . |
| 21 | ‘ I needed this piece and as I was looking around I saw exactly what I needed on this motor bike so I took it and now these guys want to kill me . ’ |
| 22 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 23 | It was the only occasion I saw inside and it made me hungry to go again . |
| 24 | In 200 acres of fresh plough I saw hardly any earthworms at all . |
| 25 | Like , you know , I saw like , what really , I 'd sat there , I mean like you say , I and I admit that I odds and ends that 'll probably take me about an hour in total |
| 26 | He had rigged up a sort of tent , I saw now , draping his jacket over the open door , a shirt over her legs . |
| 27 | I saw now she was softening me up just to ask me a favour . |
| 28 | I saw now exactly why , when General Francis 's name came up , Daisy bemoaned the fact that she had not been born twenty years earlier . |
| 29 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 30 | He dismounted , still holding his carbine , which I saw now was an old . |