Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] saw " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 2 | I only only saw it cos it , it 's |
| 3 | ‘ I only just saw it . ’ |
| 4 | And he and we did n't really I only just saw him fleetingly . |
| 5 | During the May to August breeding season , she found that three quarters of perch nests along a 150-metre-long stretch of the stream were parasitised by schools of minnows ; during the same period , she only once saw a minnow laying its eggs away from a perch nest . |
| 6 | It must be pointed out before we go any further that my friends in Harwich had a rather distorted picture of my life in that they only ever saw the best of me . |
| 7 | She married and he only ever saw her once again , yet declared : ‘ She was really , really , the only being in the world who could have given me peace and rest . ’ |
| 8 | Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . |
| 9 | Or would you be one of those people who only ever saw the worst of everything , because they are around are n't they ? |
| 10 | The more time he spent with Jeopardy , the more he realised Jeopardy only ever saw people as extensions of his work . |
| 11 | Back home you only ever saw one at a time . |
| 12 | ‘ He could have a point , ’ Claudia said ; Dana only ever saw her own point of view . |
| 13 | The style of the First Book of Maccabees betrays itself as a translation from a Hebrew text : St Jerome apparently still saw the Hebrew original ( Div . |
| 14 | As Arnold himself so clearly saw , ‘ a society formed exclusively of boys , that is of elements each separately weak and imperfect , becomes more than an aggregate of their several defects ; the amount of evil in the mass is greater than the sum of evil in the individuals ’ . |
| 15 | What chance could their love have when he so clearly saw it as something fragile , ephemeral ? |
| 16 | That will give little cheer to Electroid who only today saw one of their customers , Aylesbury Automations , shed fourteen jobs … |
| 17 | The white quivering lights which she so frequently saw probably resembled the white ‘ eels and strings ’ that Ruskin complained of , and had their origin in the psychotic brain . |
| 18 | The autumn of 1529 not only saw the fall from power of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , who had dominated religious and political life in England for the previous fifteen years , but also the beginning of the first session of the Reformation Parliament . |
| 19 | Surrealists not only saw art as being composed of signifying elements drawn from the real , but also understood reality to be composed of signifying elements . |
| 20 | He not only saw off no-confidence motions , but won the Congress round to supporting direct elections for an executive presidency . |
| 21 | In Russia Catherine II , after conniving at the overthrow and murder of her husband in 1762 , was on continuously bad terms with her son and heir , Paul , who feared and hated her and whom in the last two decades of her reign she scarcely ever saw . |
| 22 | He nevertheless still saw a need for such divisions being accompanied by new collective and community-based institutions . |
| 23 | After pipping Swedish pair Per-Ulrik Johansson and Fredrik Lindgren , by one shot , thanks to birdies at the last two holes , he said : ‘ I was so far away I just about saw the ball disappear . |
| 24 | Do not simply saw the trunk off at soil level as this will later attract honey fungus . |
| 25 | ‘ I just never saw her during those early years because I was always away , ’ he says . |
| 26 | With activities going on every day and most evenings we hardly ever saw our two . |
| 27 | Two were out of contact because of physical distance : the fate of a Berwickshire couple who had emigrated to Australia was ‘ a mystery ’ , while even within the same county a Norfolk farm labourer 's parents were too far away to visit on foot , so the family ‘ hardly ever saw them . ’ |
| 28 | We hardly ever saw him . |
| 29 | ‘ I hardly ever saw him , ’ she said , ‘ but we used to talk on the phone for hours . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyhow , the problem was that we hardly ever saw any young men , so how on earth could she start courting ? |