Example sentences of "[pron] see [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the hon. Gentleman , my impressions of what I saw are the recollections of a person who was shocked by the wanton destruction that occurred during the riot . |
| 2 | I sell Amway products because the company operates only by direct selling ( not through retail shops ) , and I saw being a distributor as a chance for me to raise funds for NCT ( and my kids ' playgroup ! ) |
| 3 | But now the first thing I saw were the lines on his face standing out like the lines on a charcoal drawing . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know whether the man I saw was a gardener , ’ said Peggy , shaking her head . |
| 5 | The first man I saw was a Daily Mirror photographer and he said , ‘ I 'm surprised to see you here , ' ’ and I said , ‘ I 'm quite surprised myself . ' ’ |
| 6 | What I saw was a beautiful country with a lovely climate ( it was summer of course ) . |
| 7 | The first flowering plant I saw was a familiar one — the purple mountain saxifrage , Saxafraga oppositifolia to give it the scientific name . |
| 8 | The first thing I saw was a batch of Biggles books , stacked beside several of their Kaiser 's War equivalents , written by a man called Percy F. Westerman . |
| 9 | What I saw was a bewildering jigsaw puzzle of textual fragments , some of them recent , others ancient ‘ fossils ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Hulme ’ it said — though all I saw was a rubbled |
| 11 | ‘ What I saw was the first draft of the first letter . |
| 12 | The first film I saw was The Great Caruso , starring Mario Lanza . |
| 13 | One of the most bizarre things I saw was the lengthy and intricate preparation for the blessing of a new furniture store . |
| 14 | ‘ I think the first thing I saw was the isolation of each . |
| 15 | Once outside the house she darted quickly along the road then through a gap in a hedge and the last I saw was the little black figure flitting over the rain-swept grass of a field . |
| 16 | But as usual all I saw was the hairy form bounding away out of sight round the corner of the house . |
| 17 | At the end of the alley I paused , waiting , but all I saw was the end of a nose which quietly withdrew as I stood there . |
| 18 | The second I saw was an Alan Ayckbourn , considering that I was only six at the time and I did n't understand some of it I still was enthralled with the acting and enjoyed it almost as equally enough as the panto . |
| 19 | Out of this model solution , the only results I see are a depression of production , unemployment and structural deformation . |
| 20 | I try to see Oreste , or used to before I gave up the torture , but all I see is a baby , fat and dimpled … ’ |
| 21 | The animal I see is a large furry dog , but my belief is not false , because there is a sheep there too , unknown to me , hidden by the hedge . |
| 22 | All 's I see is a crazy woman throwing away our supplies . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ What I see is a beautiful , desirable woman . |
| 24 | What I see is a Soho patisserie , where Rainbow , awaiting Naomi , stares into her coffee . |
| 25 | ‘ My aunt had … this other general opinion … that every man she saw was a pick-pocket . ’ |
| 26 | But in her personal and religious life she was very far from wise or sober , which might lead theologians to think that the apparition of Christ which she saw was a hallucination rather than a pure vision . |
| 27 | Carrie lifted her head and looked at him , and what she saw was a young boy , the same young boy she had known when she lived in the cottage . |
| 28 | The only bird she saw was a crow flying high above , its black outline alien and unwelcome against the clear blue of the sky . |
| 29 | All she saw was a rippling edge of pallor , but she felt the barrier as a solid ridge barricading the path . |
| 30 | And what she saw was a set of strong forceful lines — curved nose , high cheekbones , wide mobile mouth , a strong jutting chin and an implacable jawline . |