Example sentences of "[adv] saw [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 2 | One day , some of the grazing horses suddenly saw a small black calf in the neighbouring paddock . |
| 3 | I suddenly saw a burning plane coming down from the sky … with its nose pointing towards the apartment buildings . |
| 4 | Why not at the party , from a woman who suddenly saw a way to wreak her spite not only on Parkin but on his ambitious young lover ? |
| 5 | As Zen came through the door he suddenly saw an opening and lunged forward , so that for the next thirty seconds or so he was unable to reply to his visitor 's question . |
| 6 | He struggled with Manchester United , too , until he suddenly saw the light and realised he was going nowhere . |
| 7 | Because they had both anticipated , not a fight , but a long , hard ride neither of them was wearing a hauberk and as William levelled his lance Richard suddenly saw the danger he was in . |
| 8 | We suddenly saw the wizened old man in a new light . |
| 9 | She was thinking about pigs and children when she suddenly saw the Cheshire Cat in a tree . |
| 10 | I looked at the altar ; in the orange glow of the valves , I suddenly saw the vision , the nightmare of the well-shaft — there was the huge seated figure , and , apparently , sitting on its lap , the dark shrivelled form of the Virgin . |
| 11 | ‘ I merely saw no need to rectify it . ’ |
| 12 | In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) . |
| 13 | Certain countries , Ghana first and Tanzania considerably later , developed their own particular political creeds and naturally saw the primary school as an important instrument to lay the basis of particular attitudes and values . |
| 14 | ‘ But I told ye I only saw a shadow . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Only saw a dim outline , really . |
| 16 | A juror asked what the comforts were , for he only saw a little straw in the corner of the room , the windows of which were broken . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 18 | Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 21 | We only saw the adult shearwaters at sea and they looked a bit like a small Manx shearwater , but with a brownish tinge to the upper parts . |
| 22 | ‘ I only saw the driver but there could have been others inside the wagon . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ In the hope of following them to the base , since we do n't know where the land entrance is — I only saw the inlet that allows ships in . ’ |
| 24 | She swung round , but only saw the myriad jostling headlights behind them . |
| 25 | But she only saw the girl who had now returned her full attention to the case . |
| 26 | ‘ Because I only saw the car ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's all very well you saying that , but do you realise that Micky only saw the script ten days ago ? |
| 28 | I only saw the letters your mother wrote him , not the ones he wrote her . ’ |
| 29 | At first she only saw the dark shape of the forest beside the road , then as her eyes adjusted to a faint lifting of the gloom a narrow laneway appeared between the trees . |
| 30 | ‘ He only saw the shintiyan ! ’ |