Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | Above , I saw where a hole in the tin roof had been repaired with a flattened-out biscuit tin that had once contained Huntley and Palmer 's ginger nuts . |
| 5 | I followed him , Lily , and then — I could n't believe it — I saw where he 'd a desk key hidden , so then I put the books down sudden , and bent double . |
| 6 | I saw where I was drifting and I was concerned about hitting the hangar but it was all right |
| 7 | ‘ After what I saw here today , I do n't believe you 're afraid of anything . ’ |
| 8 | Pedalling home , I used to play a game — that with every light I saw on in a house , I would get £1,000 a year . |
| 9 | and I saw just how bony my legs were . |
| 10 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 11 | For the first time I saw not a vague pink blob but an exquisite , fragile , jewel-like object . |
| 12 | I felt even readier when I saw not a Gharrgoyle insight at Gharr 's table . |
| 13 | ‘ The small stone houses I saw up there — are they Inca ruins ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But then what — ’ And I stopped as light flooded my mind and I saw clearly the chain of circumstances which connected us . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I gathered from Anthony ( whom I saw later on Thursday ) that he had neither been asked for his advice nor had volunteered it . |
| 18 | I saw Yet drag himself up , eyes charged with fear , and make for the door to the lower regions . |
| 19 | I saw little actually changing hands , apart from a pedigree pup and a painting . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I saw today . |
| 22 | The centre , I saw briefly , was occupied by a large boat on blocks , its superstructure covered with lightweight grey plastic sheeting . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 26 | Erm which I saw again in Marks this year which you could wear tucked in with a belt . |
| 27 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 28 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 29 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 30 | The officer I saw when I joined said to me : " Are you keen about the A. F. S. ? " |