Example sentences of "thing i saw be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next thing I saw was Charlie sprinting through the traffic towards them . |
| 2 | The next thing I saw was my kite diving away from me , the roar of its engine gradually fading as it plunged earthwards . |
| 3 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I think the first thing I saw was the isolation of each . |
| 6 | When I came round my head was very bad and the first thing I saw was my father . |
| 7 | When I had reached the front , the first thing I saw was Granpa lying on the pavement , his head propped up on a box of apples and his face as white as a sheet . |
| 8 | I 'll have to wallpaper your bathroom , then paint it , I then have to touch up the door cos it 's that kind of paint and I had it like , on the top of the loo , I was doing it up a bit , and the next thing I saw was Felix coming onto the back of the wind ah |
| 9 | But now the first thing I saw were the lines on his face standing out like the lines on a charcoal drawing . |