Example sentences of "[adv] saw [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly to be grasped with all his senses , he suddenly saw again the scenes of his happiness , his first , great , boundless happiness . |
| 2 | In some of the wrecks other young women were sitting : Miranda only saw then one naked girl in dark glasses leaning back on the banquette-style front seat of a big old Rover , thin white legs in heels just touching the cinder-strewn wasteground . |
| 3 | The decision to fight or pay can not therefore have been easy , not least because the Mercians and Northumbrians , who apparently saw considerably less of the enemy than the south and east , may often have been disinclined to do either . |
| 4 | Next to him his wife , a tall rangy woman whom Sven Hjerson somehow saw even here as being astride a hunter , was leaning forward tapping the tips of the fingers of each hand one against the other . |
| 5 | ‘ I guess I just saw too many of those sci-fi movies when I was a kid . |
| 6 | He always saw straight to the point of an argument . |
| 7 | Nobody ever saw little Jack Toop or Gabriel-Ernest again . |
| 8 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 9 | The Sardinian had resigned a week after Zen 's transfer , and he was the only one of his former colleagues whom Zen still saw regularly . |
| 10 | The rest , even Ranulf of Chester , still saw only their own palatines , and built at them and fought off encroachments on them feverishly , looking no farther . |
| 11 | The Hatherley ball to raise money for a hospice charity had become an important even ; in Gloucestershire because Ayling did what people craved on such occasions : he brought them the rich and famous whom they usually saw only on their television screens or in their newspapers . |
| 12 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 13 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 14 | The company also saw nearly a halving of complaints against it and is hoping to widen the number of people using meters . |
| 15 | par but bad news for American Kristal Parker who we also saw earlier , she 's finished nine over par and does n't look as if she 'll be going through to the next stage . |
| 16 | Yet the same forces and influences on society which saw the emergence of the Die-hards as the main force of the radical right after the First World War also saw more extremist reactions from a small but significant group who thought like Banister , and who were prepared to use Burton 's supposed evidence . |
| 17 | But whatever lit it was not the moon , for this Stephen now saw slowly rising out of clusters of cloud on the rim of the moor , a reddish , mottled orb like the ghost of that sun . |
| 18 | Well , she had shrugged her shoulders metaphorically at that , and oh , how she wished that she had heeded him , instead of going on what she now saw clearly had been her wilful way . |
| 19 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
| 20 | I knew men and women who wept bitter tears as they confronted how they had given their love , their time , their heart 's energy to a cause which they now saw as false . |
| 21 | Unable to accept concessions in negotiation , Law now saw much the same deal offered in public by the Liberals themselves , when Asquith announced an Amending Bill to satisfy Ulster 's fears of Home Rule with a period of exclusion . |
| 22 | If we take the attribute which employers most often saw as ‘ essential ’ , willingness/attitude to work ( mentioned by 81 per cent ) , we see that the MSC 's poor rating of — 32 in fact reflects a negative judgement by less than half of employers ( 53 per cent said that young workers are different in this respect and 43 per cent of those said they were worse ) . |
| 23 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Editors increasingly saw only the downside of tedious and expensive court actions and official or semi-official government pressure . |
| 26 | Like the style of coverage or not , we undoubtedly saw far more cricket than we ever would have done had BBC had the contract , and for that I for one am profoundly grateful and not ashamed to admit that I purchased my Sky system purely because it was producing coverage of cricket that otherwise would not be available on TV . |
| 27 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Monday morning curiously saw only engines built in Swindon and Bristol working at Quainton and on the ACE . |
| 29 | That 's a question which might be asked after last week 's thoroughly enjoyable Carrowdore 100 which however saw only a handful of riders on the line in each race except the classic . |
| 30 | He did n't change his clothes too often , and when he did he just picked up whatever was around him — Eva 's jumpers , Dad 's waistcoats , and always my shirts , which he borrowed and I never saw again . |