Example sentences of "[adv] saw " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men below saw it , but only for a second , as the window was shut with a bang . |
| 2 | Jay suddenly saw : there was a pixie smile in the tough young eyes . |
| 3 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 5 | For Dorothea suddenly saw herself as an old woman badgering a friend into giving up her time and company , and , self-sufficient as she had always been , the picture repelled her . |
| 6 | To Jonjo O'Neill , who a moment earlier had been plugging on towards a certain third place , this sign of weakness in Wayward Lad 's finishing effort offered remote but renewed hope : ‘ I suddenly saw he was tiring , ’ he reported later , ‘ and so did she . ’ |
| 7 | I suddenly saw he was tiring , and so did she . |
| 8 | One day , some of the grazing horses suddenly saw a small black calf in the neighbouring paddock . |
| 9 | All her agitation of the summer she suddenly saw as moving towards this end — she had known , without knowing it , of this tragedy , she had been what her old mistress had called ‘ pre-sentimental ’ . |
| 10 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 11 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 12 | On 30 June 1921 these elements coalesced and he suddenly saw that familiar landscape with new eyes . |
| 13 | Clearly to be grasped with all his senses , he suddenly saw again the scenes of his happiness , his first , great , boundless happiness . |
| 14 | Casting about for a sighting , she suddenly saw one of the dogs about a quarter of a mile away . |
| 15 | About 15,000 feet presumably someone called ‘ Tally Ho ! ’ because I suddenly saw three Ju88s , which were at the same height , slightly to my left , range about 1,000 yards , and heading away from Malta . |
| 16 | He struggled with Manchester United , too , until he suddenly saw the light and realised he was going nowhere . |
| 17 | I suddenly saw a burning plane coming down from the sky … with its nose pointing towards the apartment buildings . |
| 18 | Bill , I suddenly saw with that horrible clarity of hindsight , had been a selfish and demanding patient . |
| 19 | People suddenly saw me as somebody who knew something whereas I 've always been laughed at before . |
| 20 | Because they had both anticipated , not a fight , but a long , hard ride neither of them was wearing a hauberk and as William levelled his lance Richard suddenly saw the danger he was in . |
| 21 | That " something " happened three hours later , when Martin , cold and tired but still with his Nikon FM2 and 300 mm lens around his neck , suddenly saw that the ship was about to explode . |
| 22 | As they approached , they suddenly saw Hawkbit sitting among the thorn trunks , cleaning his face with his paws . |
| 23 | But , years later , Liz found herself visiting the Freud museum in Berggasse in Vienna , and there she suddenly saw it all — the red walls , the figurines , and , perhaps most distinctively , the predominance of red carpet-cushions , the characteristic mixture of Persian geometric patterns on floor and couch — a Jewish mixture , a Viennese mixture , a Freudian mixture ? |
| 24 | We suddenly saw the wizened old man in a new light . |
| 25 | She was thinking about pigs and children when she suddenly saw the Cheshire Cat in a tree . |
| 26 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 27 | I 'm looking out at the moodily lit bathroom and wondering what I would do if I suddenly saw William appear out there , flight bags in hand , a Surprise , honey , I 'm home ! look on his face . |
| 28 | He suddenly saw Annabel passing in the street outside . |
| 29 | He suddenly saw that she was crying , though she said it was because of looking at the fire . |
| 30 | She watched the lobby and suddenly saw that , in one of the lifts hurling down the middle of this Chartres , the impresario was standing with his hands clutching the railing . |