Example sentences of "saw [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tamworth , yeah , he works in Tamworth and she has to fetch him cos he does n't drive , sometimes she fetches him a rather that him get the bus home and so she was going along the main she said the name of the road , but I ca n't , th , the number of the road but I ca n't remember she says she saw rats just trotting down the side of the road , you know ! |
| 32 | Adrian Griffith ( 34 ) and David Wright ( 26 ) put on 45 for the first wicket , before Barry Metcalf ( 23 not out ) and Steve Wundke ( 33 not out ) saw Chester home . |
| 33 | The mid-1980s saw IBM apparently making all the right decisions . |
| 34 | If other powers saw Scotland mainly as France 's back door to England , this was certainly not the view taken by the kings of Scotland themselves , who roared for attention , like the most demanding of lusty infants . |
| 35 | Pioneering entomologists undoubtedly saw Laboulbeniales quite frequently while examining insects , but mostly regarded these oddities as some sort of malformed exoskeletal growths . |
| 36 | ‘ I have n't heard how they got on but I saw Mick just before he went and he was very positive , ’ said Ronnie . |
| 37 | He saw Maud once in the Kurfûrstendamm , eating alone in a cafe and looking a little desolate , with a stack of coins already piled beside her plate although her meal had only just come . |
| 38 | I saw Nancy once the following day and then she was gone . |
| 39 | Rachaela saw Ruth again as she had appeared . |
| 40 | I once saw Hyde too and had the same strong feelings of dislike for him as you did . |
| 41 | When I saw L.R. today at finish I yelped for joy . |
| 42 | Ramsay remained in Berwick , in the Governor 's House , meantime , reluctant to leave until he saw Dunbar duly installed in the castle . |
| 43 | As a reformer confronted with an ignorant and conservative society it is understandable that Olavide saw universities only as ‘ workshops for the production of an élite to serve the state and enlighten the multitude ’ . |
| 44 | During the next two years the Prince saw Wallis once or twice a week . |
| 45 | Nails saw Firelight duly let out into Carter 's field with her foal . |
| 46 | He conceded the hole and although he won the 35th two fours at the last saw Rafferty home . |
| 47 | The idea had come from a short documentary I saw years ago called Werner Herzog Eats His Show . |
| 48 | I remember an all-black room I saw years ago which has always stuck in my mind : black velvet walls , black carpet , ebony table and chairs , black lacquer side table . |
| 49 | We sat in the open-sided restaurant and saw forest all around . |
| 50 | John Wilkinson , a passenger in a car travelling in the opposite direction , said he saw Mr Still lose control of the vehicle and swerve before mounting the verge and hitting the tree . |
| 51 | She was surprised , however , some time later when she heard the sound of horses ' hooves on the cobbles and looked out and saw Matthew alone , riding out , astride a big chestnut mare . |
| 52 | Eli Lustgarten , an analyst with Paine Webber , claims much of the blame lies with American customers themselves , who saw robots simply as a way to replace labour . |
| 53 | Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her . |
| 54 | It was to be more than two years before I saw Paris again . |
| 55 | Well , I saw Blackbeard there . |
| 56 | Charles Lyell was a student of William Buckland who taught that " Geology is the efficient auxiliary and handmaid of religion " and who saw evidence everywhere of " direct intervention by a divine creator " , of a " creative power transcending the operation of known laws of nature " . |
| 57 | He saw Anna occasionally but he had not seen Freda for years though he had to admit that he might not have recognised her had he passed her in the street . |
| 58 | Cranston saw Bonaventure fairly skipping along to greet him but he had no desire to have that bloody cat rubbing up against his leg , so hustled Athelstan out to collect their horses . |
| 59 | Schleiermacher 's own account of Jesus relied heavily on such psychological study ; so , for that matter , did that of Liberal Theology ; and so too did those which saw Jesus only as a particularly heroic and noble representative of the human race , as did the immensely popular Life of Jesus by the Frenchman Ernst Renan ( 1823–92 ) . |
| 60 | She saw Adam painfully getting back to his feet ; the floor was glass , cracked everywhere but still smooth and slippery like ice . |