Example sentences of "that [pers pn] saw " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He , too , saw through me ; I mean he clearly perceived that I saw through him … |
| 2 | ‘ None that I saw . ’ |
| 3 | And one day I will say that I saw Erika Nordern , say that I coached her . |
| 4 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 5 | And then it was the charming picture of her Gardening Boots that I saw . |
| 6 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 7 | It was her face chiefly that I saw brightening and fading away in my mind 's eye . |
| 8 | Several that I saw were very old , bearded , emaciated and grim and deathlike , instead of babies , grown men . |
| 9 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 10 | I repeated that I saw ‘ no case for a further round of Beeching cuts ’ and that there had been no secret talks or plans . |
| 11 | The fixed positions that I saw with you |
| 12 | I have other patients to care for ; I have a day ; I have a family ; I have … you know , I have a life ahead of me , and these things do come up often enough that I saw no contradiction to the … not only the needs of the patient but the final ending — what would happen would be the same . |
| 13 | It was rare that I saw people , though now and then I came across sheep and goats being herded by children — boys in night-shirts or girls in blue gingham , every dress made from the same roll of cloth . |
| 14 | There was little to repel a European , yet it was with wide eyes that I saw a ‘ Trans-World Tours ’ motor coach taking its pale-skinned passengers through the town . |
| 15 | One that I saw looked like harp in a chamber of pure light ; and at that moment I could understand the frenzy and madness of the bees that visit these studios of paradise , full of sweetness , and can not cease until they die . |
| 16 | I recall the time that I saw on one of the stalls a bone-handled Scout knife and though only a Wolf-Cub , determined to buy one . |
| 17 | It was not until I visited the SHAPE nursery in Belgium in 1969 , with my then grown-up daughter that I saw this again . |
| 18 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought , ’ Phillis said , ‘ that I saw a shadow . ’ |
| 20 | It was not until I was at a conference at which Jean Darnall was speaking that I saw the need to ask others to pray for me . |
| 21 | It was about two weeks later that I saw Clive again . |
| 22 | I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence , and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from , but inherent in , my own immaterial nature . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's nice to be able to say that I saw that big right coming but Ruddock did n't , in fact I do n't think he saw anything that came his way . |
| 24 | It was the fire that I saw , Masklin told himself . |
| 25 | And , though I hate to admit it , the fact that I saw him differently was Sophie 's doing . |
| 26 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 27 | So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw you , it means nothing that I saw you … |
| 29 | I enjoyed all the tennis that I saw , not only Steffi Graf 's match — in fact the match I enjoyed the most was the semi-final between Shriver and Zvereva , and Elna Reinach and Sandy Collins . |
| 30 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |