Example sentences of "saw were " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He agreed that she was very good natured and nearly all Rotties he saw were calm and friendly . |
| 3 | The best you saw were third-hand Morris Minors or — as we called them — Wogmobiles , Mark Two Zodiacs or Zephyrs with every conceivable extra . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Several that I saw were very old , bearded , emaciated and grim and deathlike , instead of babies , grown men . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All the audience saw were twelve soldiers marching slowly towards them apparently from miles away . |
| 10 | But now the first thing I saw were the lines on his face standing out like the lines on a charcoal drawing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Brightness tempted him , and yet many bright pictures he saw were insipid , cold lies that left him unsatisfied . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | What he saw were two mighty puffs of orange-red smoke billowing and rolling through the trees in his direction . |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | At that time there were never any buskers in Baker Street station and the ones he saw were at Leicester Square or Green Park . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The ones that I saw were . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ The only spirits I saw were Jamesons and Glenfiddich . ’ |
| 22 | In 1851 Common claimed that imported McCormick machines he saw were ‘ exactly like the one I had made 40 years before ’ . |
| 23 | The only life they saw were a few curlews , and once an eagle far off in the west , circling the heights . |
| 24 | The large fishing vessels we saw were all well maintained with modern equipment . |
| 25 | You say that the footprints you saw were on the path and not on the grass ? ’ |
| 26 | The angles and perspectives of what he saw were identical with those in the photograph . |
| 27 | She soon decided that the house was the most beautiful place she had ever seen , and though she had little experience of antique furniture or fine art works she immediately recognised that all the things she saw were of the highest quality . |
| 28 | The legs I saw were white . |
| 29 | She was convinced that sailors and tourists she saw were his emissaries , sent to proclaim his love for her . |
| 30 | And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well . |