Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] saw " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pub was a two storeyed building , with a stable at the side although I never saw horses there . |
| 2 | My South American Aluminium Catfish seemed to settle in well , although I never saw it eat , dry or live food . |
| 3 | All the creatures pictured on the page are descended from the dot but , in order to avoid cluttering the page , I have n't printed all the descendants that I actually saw . |
| 4 | ‘ I know only what I have been told , I do not remember that I ever saw him . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't remember that I ever saw that page . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , the weirdest thing that I ever saw onstage was a murder , at the Stones appearance at Altamont . |
| 7 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 8 | But my suffrage is of little value , because this and Fort Augustus are the only garrisons that I ever saw . ’ |
| 9 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 10 | A lot of the operations now I do I think I can do better that I 'm now seeing detail that I never saw before with the naked eye . |
| 11 | When I see a spider 's web , I no longer see the sinister aspects that I once saw . |
| 12 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That I really saw it ? |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ At least I 've seen more of the town where I live than I ever saw from a carriage or on horseback . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm afraid they came down the steps and chose the path leading away from me , so I only saw those three at a distance . |
| 18 | My probation officer outside told me she 'd try to bring her up , but then she said it was too far and she could n't get the funds , so I only saw her twice in eight months . |
| 19 | And I just saw myself washing it while he sat in the bath . |
| 20 | and just fell over and I just saw this thing in the corner of my eye |
| 21 | ‘ And I also saw you this afternoon . ’ |
| 22 | She looked sad and worried , and I even saw a tear or two on her face . |
| 23 | Anna and I both saw it . |
| 24 | Women of all ages were shouting and I clearly saw a handbag swung overarm . |
| 25 | He seemed disappointed and I soon saw why when I got into the main hall . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 28 | Sadly I followed his eyes , and I too saw what he saw . |
| 29 | ‘ I tell you , I do n't know who he is and I never saw him . ’ |
| 30 | I had had one very close childhood friend , Maeve , but her family had moved to a different part of the country and I never saw her again . |