Example sentences of "[adv] saw a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ But I told ye I only saw a shadow . ’ |
| 4 | THE film distributors obviously saw a hit on their hands with the cartoon FREDDIE AS F.R.O.7 ( Cert U ; General ) because its sequel is already in production . |
| 5 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 6 | one of them said , you know , he said how , how the hell how the hell can they say which directions the fire 's coming from ? but they , I mean some of them were saying like this mate he run out , he was going across this patch of open space and the soldier obviously saw a soldier and as he did that apparently he got shot through there and out the other side of him . |
| 7 | But we did n't watch it we just saw a couple of bits . |
| 8 | ‘ I just saw a car run into the back of another car and a lorry ended up going sideways ’ , Sacco went on . |
| 9 | Probably just saw a shadow or something . |
| 10 | The unrest has claimed more than 200 lives across the country so far , and yesterday saw a riot by 10,000 in Bombay where Graham Gooch 's men are due to play a Test in the New Year . |
| 11 | The first time I ever saw a skinhead haircut & Crombie on the same person was in 1978 or 9 . |
| 12 | There was an echo , and no man ever saw a ghost with a shadow , so why should a ghost 's voice have an echo ? |
| 13 | Apart from my fourpence a week , his brothers likewise never ever saw a penny from him . |
| 14 | ‘ I hardly ever saw a doctor . |
| 15 | He nevertheless still saw a need for such divisions being accompanied by new collective and community-based institutions . |
| 16 | And it was not Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery who once stated that : ‘ I once saw a bowler in Australia thunder to the wicket and bowl a flatout underarm to the batsman . |
| 17 | ’ I once saw a film about a girl in love with a man who had a dickey heart , ’ he said . |
| 18 | And I once saw a dancing bear when I was little . |
| 19 | I once saw a cellarful of pleasant bindings , all cleaned and polished , waiting shipment to America . |
| 20 | It 's a bit of poetry by the poet in which he er says that Pythagoras once saw a puppy being beaten and said er , do n't beat that puppy , that 's a good friend of mine , I recognize his voice . |
| 21 | It 's all done up in steel pins and scaffolding to hold it up , and I once saw a computer thing in a museum showing how it shudders when the trains go over . |
| 22 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 23 | I have n't I have n't actually seen one , but I once saw a lady on the bus with one |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 26 | I once saw a science fiction movie about time-travellers in the future ; towards the end of the film the whole story is speeded up and re-run in about two minutes . |
| 27 | I once saw a copy of the German illustrated weekly Der Adler in which there were photographs of individual prisoners posing goodnaturedly . |
| 28 | Years later , at a falconry centre , I once saw a falcon miss the bait it was supposed to pick up , fly past , come to a sudden standstill in mid-air , turn 180 degrees and zoom down again . |
| 29 | My wardrobe may not be as current these days , and I hardly saw a movie for a year and a half while I was getting myself back on my feet financially . |
| 30 | A second lorry driver Peter Walling later saw a man naked from the waist up scramble up the river bank but disappear when he saw the lorry . |