Example sentences of "[pron] saw of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last I saw of Jordi was when he turned his head towards me before getting into the car , smiled , and gave a shrug . |
| 2 | Stooping , what I saw of the valley were glimpses of a richly farmed landscape and a dark brown river , all imbued with a hazy crepuscular Tuscan light . |
| 3 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The more I saw of … the doings of an official generation slightly older than my own ’ , he writes , ‘ the more it was borne in upon me that the genuine image of the diplomatic process is hardly to be recaptured in historical narrative unless the lens through which it is viewed is a sharp one and the human texture of which it consists becomes visible in considerable detail . ’ |
| 5 | That was the last I saw of him . |
| 6 | That was the last I saw of Will . " |
| 7 | ‘ From what I saw of you when you rode in , you 'd have finished that journey roped face-down across your saddles , the lot of you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The last I saw of him was as he entered the bedroom , ’ Petion replied . |
| 9 | And then we went on to and parked at the start of and walked up one side and back down the other side and that 's as much as I saw of it . |
| 10 | The last I saw of her she was standing in the lounge aiming a stool at me . |
| 11 | ‘ The last I saw of them , they were all busy checking the distances for the car jump , ’ she said . |
| 12 | He was quite charming , the little I saw of him . ’ |
| 13 | The last I saw of Angy was a few minutes after the class ended . |
| 14 | There is no poor law infirmary nearer than Waterford , so I took her there , and that was the last I saw of that dreadful day . |
| 15 | ‘ Downstairs in the canteen , last I saw of him . ’ |
| 16 | That was the last I saw of him . ’ |
| 17 | From what I saw of the match he played well . |
| 18 | From the little I saw of the game Ipswich seemed quite content with standing inside their own penalty box and only closing down people when they got within 2 yards of it . |
| 19 | It 's more than I saw of him . |
| 20 | Although it was late she did this , kissed me goodnight and that was the last I saw of ever her . ’ |
| 21 | That was the last I saw of him . ’ |
| 22 | The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That was the last I saw of him , ’ added Mrs Strand . |
| 24 | And it was there a week , oh well , at the last , the last thing I saw of it was like , Monday night and when did he give it me ? |
| 25 | But like what I saw of the women , they looked alright to me . |
| 26 | Anne Besant , as a socialist member of the London School Board in the 1880s , was acutely distressed by the problems she saw of ‘ gaunt hunger-pinched men and women … decent folk who did n't want to keep their children ignorant , but sometimes there were no boots , sometimes there was a baby to feed , sometimes there were no food . ’ |
| 27 | Hopefully it would be the last she saw of her lesbian lover . |
| 28 | The more she saw of the Redmonds the more she liked them , particularly Sarah 's grandmother . |
| 29 | The more she saw of Alain 's mother and the more she breathed in the atmosphere of this house , the more she felt outside it all , an intruder who was here to rock the peace of the place , to alter their lives . |
| 30 | And then he was gone down the stairs , running lightly , for all his limp , and the last which she saw of him was the sandy-blond head before he turned the corner of the first landing . |