Example sentences of "saw a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw a haunted house , a superstition she had perhaps used for her own account , and he saw something more human , a complex web of relationships , interlocking and interacting in a way he could not yet fathom , and in which people got caught up and destroyed . |
| 2 | I do n't think I ever saw a nude woman in the house — certainly there were women in various states of undress … but never nude . " |
| 3 | Woman just ‘ phoned in , said she saw a nude vicar , would you believe it , wearing a dog-collar and an early edition of the Standard . |
| 4 | When the pope finally retreated , Anselm saw a possible injustice in forcing others to a similar retreat . |
| 5 | The head saw a possible solution in a more flexible points allocation for ancillary assistance than that which was LEA policy , but recognised that it was principally a matter of lack of finance . |
| 6 | I never saw a fitted carpet . |
| 7 | I saw a live TV transmission of Il trovatore from the Metropolitan in New York a few weeks ago that can only have confirmed a lot of people 's worst prejudices about opera — dull production , dull filming , all wrapped round with a certain amount of superstar hype . |
| 8 | This saw a live rendition of ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ spliced with snippets of wholly pretentious banter between Morrissey and Margi Clarke , fresh from her suitably brash role in Letter To Brezhnev . |
| 9 | The Regency period ( 1713–23 ) , during which the government was controlled by the able if dissolute Duc d'Orléans , saw a violent reaction against the rigidity and authoritarianism of the régime of Louis XIV . |
| 10 | The year 1930 saw a bewildering and rapid sequence of events : Bruno Fricke was arraigned for court martial , there was a string of resignations , public rows and even expulsions . |
| 11 | On one final sweep with the binoculars , however , I saw a clearer patch of water to the south , with the waves breaking further inshore , some of which were rolling clear up to the low rocky cliffs . |
| 12 | It is no accident that the nineteenth century saw a tremendous acceleration of interest among librarians in classification and indexing procedures . |
| 13 | The adventurer looked about him , and saw a wide beautiful lawn on which many people stood around the Emperor . |
| 14 | As he reached the front door he saw a strange sight . |
| 15 | One day Victoria and Alexander were called to the drawing room after tea and saw a strange woman in a dress printed with yellow lemons sitting on the fender beside their father . |
| 16 | One evening , as we stood talking by the shore , I saw a strange , beautifully shaped bird flying fast over the sea , rising in a long , slow arch , calling hauntingly as it flew . |
| 17 | Dad looked out of his bedroom window and saw a strange car , with some men in it , parked outside . |
| 18 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 19 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 20 | I saw a strange little person with her just now . |
| 21 | You should give them a ring and tell them if you saw a strange man . |
| 22 | The accession of the Tudors was fairly smooth in Sussex , and the sixteenth century saw a reasonable degree of internal political order under the powerful influence of the great local noble families — the Arundels , Montagues , Sackvilles , Lumleys and de la Warrs — whose dependent gentry kept the peace at parish level . |
| 23 | They saw a warm , comfortable room with a good fire burning in the fireplace and a few papers on the big table . |
| 24 | Saw a brilliant light for a cycl . |
| 25 | Pete and Wayne looked down , and saw a sleeping princess . |
| 26 | The 1980s saw a pre-planned , sustained and ever-increasing harassment of the minorities in the valley — an attempt at ethnic cleansing by the fundamentalist muslims . |
| 27 | And many more died from accidents ; I saw a hundred children die from fire . |
| 28 | Fertiliser production for 1991 seems to have fallen by 5 per cent , worse than the predicted -3 per cent , and paints saw a similar pattern . |
| 29 | A Mrs Loxton saw a similar man . |
| 30 | The early days of Methodism saw a similar concern for group direction . |