Example sentences of "saw was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before you get the idea that such a bias occurs only in national competitions , I would like to point out that the worse case of this I ever saw was in a world championship . |
| 2 | What is our concern , though , is the notion of love which he saw was at the centre of understanding the work of Christ . |
| 3 | The first thing he saw was his helmet hanging from the branch of a tree near his hide . |
| 4 | ‘ What I saw was n't anything like those little dark blue things , ’ commented Jane , a rather shy young woman who has had an experience with an alien . |
| 5 | When she did return to her kingdom , what she saw was , inevitably , very small-scale and impoverished compared to what she had known in France . |
| 6 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 7 | Therefore the letter is either a fake , or the diver the writer saw was a Russian still inspecting the ship for other British frogmen . |
| 8 | What they saw was a blazing inferno . |
| 9 | The first body I saw was that of a man lying in a gutter in Raouche , his arms wrapped around his face , one leg hooked above the pavement . |
| 10 | But what we saw was not a street in any real sense of the term . |
| 11 | But all I saw was what I had lost . |
| 12 | ‘ My aunt had … this other general opinion … that every man she saw was a pick-pocket . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ What I saw was the first draft of the first letter . |
| 14 | All he saw was the street under his feet ; the escalator at the station suddenly yawning under him ; the signs in yellow paint saying : ‘ DANGER ’ . |
| 15 | What I saw was principally field upon field rolling off into the far distance . |
| 16 | Two of the men now hoisted her up , and when she was seated in the chair she slowly opened her eyes , and the first thing she saw was the great broad face of Betty Felton . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know whether the man I saw was a gardener , ’ said Peggy , shaking her head . |
| 18 | In the 19th century an anthology was made of all the surviving T'ang poetry and someone complained that what he saw was only a meagre yield from the vast harvest of its origin . |
| 19 | The officer you just saw was a major . ’ |
| 20 | Such as , whether the expression you saw was what he wanted you to see , and was genuine . |
| 21 | She picked up a hand mirror , but what she saw was not reassuring ; the harsh overhead light remorselessly picked out the tiny lines at the corners of her mouth , the discoloured skin around her eyes , the dry , wrinkled neck . |
| 22 | The next thing I saw was Charlie sprinting through the traffic towards them . |
| 23 | What he saw was incredible to him : imperfect stones , yes , flawed , sometimes of poor coloration , but cut and set with such skill and ingenuity that their imperfections were disguised . |
| 24 | And you could be sure that every dog you saw was an excellent example of their breed — they had to be the most consistent winners throughout the year before they could qualify for an invite . |
| 25 | What they saw was a milling mob mixed ages , dimensions and dispositions . |
| 26 | The first specimen of this fish I saw was 4–5″ long and was retailing at £245 . |
| 27 | She went to a dance alone with hope and a new set of clothes , but all they saw was a fat woman and no-one asked her to dance . |
| 28 | The next thing I saw was my kite diving away from me , the roar of its engine gradually fading as it plunged earthwards . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The last light he saw was before the large rectangular lid of the boot came down on him . |