Example sentences of "saw be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again unlike South Africa , many of the homes we saw are owner-occupied . |
| 2 | Like the hon. Gentleman , my impressions of what I saw are the recollections of a person who was shocked by the wanton destruction that occurred during the riot . |
| 3 | I sell Amway products because the company operates only by direct selling ( not through retail shops ) , and I saw being a distributor as a chance for me to raise funds for NCT ( and my kids ' playgroup ! ) |
| 4 | Certainly the reading content of the recommended book for Class 2 in Sierra Leone which I saw being used with very young children in Freetown schools is far above the average reading level one might expect for six-year-olds in London who speak English , not Creole , at home . |
| 5 | A year passed before I was able to witness this second part of the mayor-making , so it was a different mayor I saw being installed . |
| 6 | Along with the majorette , whom she saw being helped away from the fire by the kids . |
| 7 | What people wanted was food in the shops and a slice of the materialist cake they saw being gobbled in the West . |
| 8 | Here , however , all similarity between the piece Lucien was familiar with and what he saw being performed before him ended . |
| 9 | It was also clearly evident , in the groups that I saw being taught , as well as from my own personal experience , that the GCSE has improved children 's motivation . |
| 10 | And was that Gavin I saw being deported from Holland ? have n't heard anything from him this morning so I assume not . |
| 11 | Well today we were behind a G registration Jag and I turned to Paul and I said oh maybe that 's one of the Jaguars we saw being built in Coventry and I said no , no , no , corrected myself , I said could n't of been |
| 12 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 13 | He agreed that she was very good natured and nearly all Rotties he saw were calm and friendly . |
| 14 | The best you saw were third-hand Morris Minors or — as we called them — Wogmobiles , Mark Two Zodiacs or Zephyrs with every conceivable extra . |
| 15 | We saw no razorbills , which was a surprise , and the few little auks we saw were all out on the water , but the puffins made up for the loss . |
| 16 | Several that I saw were very old , bearded , emaciated and grim and deathlike , instead of babies , grown men . |
| 17 | He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ . |
| 18 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 19 | As I lay on my back and tried to visualize those brigades of white cells marching to my rescue , all I saw were those other cadavers so plentiful in our ancient cathedrals . |
| 20 | All the audience saw were twelve soldiers marching slowly towards them apparently from miles away . |
| 21 | But now the first thing I saw were the lines on his face standing out like the lines on a charcoal drawing . |
| 22 | But when we got to the studio , the first thing we saw were all these picture frames suspended from the ceiling — we just looked at each other and burst out laughing . |
| 23 | Brightness tempted him , and yet many bright pictures he saw were insipid , cold lies that left him unsatisfied . |
| 24 | But the reporters were sure that five of the seven camps they saw were special ‘ show camps ’ for refugees rather than victims of Serbia 's ‘ ethnic cleansing . ’ |
| 25 | What he saw were two mighty puffs of orange-red smoke billowing and rolling through the trees in his direction . |
| 26 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 27 | At that time there were never any buskers in Baker Street station and the ones he saw were at Leicester Square or Green Park . |
| 28 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 29 | From Penhill Crags , where the only bones I saw were those of a less than gigantic sheep , we walked by the disused quarry to Stony Gate and the old drove road of Morpeth Gate , now a peaceful broad green lane and very pleasant walking . |
| 30 | The ones that I saw were . |