Example sentences of "saw it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when he saw it being done he still would n't have known what was going on but unless you try it yourself , you do n't know what physical effect , or mental effect , it has on you and how speedy and intolerant it makes you of other people . |
| 2 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 3 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 4 | Penelope saw it being carried in the hand , stiff and furry at one end like a kind of African fly switch . |
| 5 | As they got closer , they saw it was rising from a burning truck . |
| 6 | He could not make out its face but saw it was looking through the book he had just found with the complicated title . |
| 7 | Look at the way Waldegrave 's initiative for openness collapsed as soon as people saw it was going to land them in it , ’ said Jim . |
| 8 | When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite . |
| 9 | I saw it was coming from Mr Rochester 's door , which was slightly open . |
| 10 | He looked across at the hour candle and saw it was growing late . |
| 11 | But Ginsberg realised that it was a conditional matter , and the task of sociology as he saw it was to discern and specify the conditions under which it could continue . |
| 12 | For a moment Luce had difficulty identifying Sagittarius ; then she saw it was symbolised by its ruling planet , Jupiter , and was portrayed as the Bringer of Joy . |