Example sentences of "[pron] saw in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example : Mother Simone in Pavlova 's version of La Fille Mal Gardée which I saw in Kiev ( 1954 ) was played by a man and used such tricks as titivating before meeting Father Thomas and fainting when Lise is discovered in her bedroom with Colas . |
| 2 | ( Funnily enough , years later in France I saw in the Orange branch of the Credit Agricole exactly the same slogan used to advertise personal loans . ) |
| 3 | Later I saw in the mirror that the shape of his palm and fingers was etched in dark red on my skin . |
| 4 | Everything I saw in Government suggested that the right place for the National Freight Corporation was in the private sector and that deregulation of the bus and coach services could provide great public benefits . |
| 5 | While I was shaving , peacefully surveying my baggy eyes , thick lips hinting at a recent cold sore , and ever-deepening wrinkles , I saw in the mirror something monstrous appear around the side of my grey hair . |
| 6 | It was the most feeling I saw in him , apart from when describing some bitter wrangle in the London ad agency which had caused his walk-out and propelled him here . |
| 7 | I saw in my eyes not just the trace of a hunted look , but a determination : ‘ Soy escritor . ’ |
| 8 | Nobody I saw in the streets ever looked up . |
| 9 | I saw in my mind some magic bird , a nightingale of the coral islands . |
| 10 | I saw in my mind Boullée in his room in Paris , deep in thought , his eyes on the horizon — not your horizon or mine but a far more distant one . |
| 11 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 12 | I saw in all of them the potential of poets and mystics . |
| 13 | ‘ But the style of rugby I saw in August over there , and that we have seen on their tour of France and England , indicates that before very long the Springboks will be up there with the best . |
| 14 | I saw in my car , avoiding the midges , listening to a torrent of abuse in which some words , familiar to regular readers of this column , cropped up more than others . |
| 15 | An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind 's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom . |
| 16 | Men not in Botha 's mould , nor like some of the bangers I saw in some up-country games . |
| 17 | Years ago , I saw in the pages of Punch a cartoon more memorable than most ( I have redrawn it in Figure 1 ) . |
| 18 | All the buildings I saw in the complex were well maintained , clean , light and well ventilated . |
| 19 | Your selection of wayward notices ( 27th November ) reminded me of one I saw in my hotel in Frankfurt — not so much a case of bad translation , as a question of logic . |
| 20 | " Do not stray from the path " , said a notice I saw in the Cheviots when I was walking the Pennine Way . |
| 21 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 22 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 23 | But I saw in the newspaper that , in three weeks , the new young King , Rudolf the Fifth , would have his coronation . |
| 24 | This is the hallmark of greatness and what I saw in Nicklaus I now see in Olazabal . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Once I saw in the studio one of the Target paintings , but it was the wrong year . |
| 26 | Shall I tell you what I saw in my old man 's garden shed last summer ? |
| 27 | Mrs Rumney looked at me in silence for a few moments and I saw in her face the dawning of relief and hope . |
| 28 | ‘ It was you I saw in the car , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ I was going to , but I saw in the newspaper the next morning that he had died . ’ |
| 30 | Who was that client I saw in here ? |