Example sentences of "i saw [art] " in BNC.

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1 When I saw no one in the middle of the room , which had been full of music and smoke and pungent with the smell of hashish , I thought he might have forgotten to turn off the music before he went to sleep .
2 But I saw no other way out : I did n't know if I would ever have a chance again . ’
3 The movement seems to have substantial sums of money , but I saw no sign of material support .
4 I saw no prospect of any sensible compromise .
5 I saw no point in continuing until the point was settled .
6 Which is why I saw no real point in pushing the human poor-little-baby bit . ’
7 As I turned I saw no mark that the Incas had left on this landscape , beyond the forty-five terraces leading up to the thatched hut that I counted before they all became a blur .
8 I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being .
9 In transcribing , I saw no point in keeping his errors , and I have slightly amended his hasty punctuation too , when sentences dragged on clause after clause , separated only by dashes .
10 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 .
11 So hospitals had been home and although my stay at the Winchester one was not to be long , I saw no reason why it should n't function in exactly the same way .
12 I saw no Minnas or Brendas in Ballachulish that day , maybe a Kylie Minogue in the supermarket , and nobody had any folk memories of tame jackdaws .
13 That 's partly why I saw no reason to doubt they were related .
14 I saw no such thing . ’
15 But I saw no sign of it .
16 I saw no clear advantage now from 17 .
17 Everyone called him just ‘ James ’ , including not only the denizens of the sport but all the periphery of FI life , discotheques , tennis courts , night clubs , fancy hotels , good restaurants , etc. , and I saw no reason to do otherwise .
18 I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges .
19 While I saw no justification for positive discrimination in the coffee queue , I was aware that prejudice can stem from the most unexpected beginnings .
20 I saw no point in lying to an already acerbic-looking policeman , and agreed that it was .
21 ‘ I wanted it ’ , he concluded the note already quoted , ‘ because I saw no other weapon then to use in the fight against unemployment . ’
22 People laughing and cheering and waving flags , riding on any available vehicle , twenty people draped over a taxi , bus bonnets crowded with people and thousands of happy pedestrians — every window open and crowded out with waving enthusiasts — and I saw no tears , no inkling of what was to come all over again .
23 As the morning mist had risen long ago when I first left the forge , so the evening mist was rising now , and in the clear moonlight I saw no shadow of another separation from her .
24 I saw no reason to tell her .
25 But my heart became filled with fear when I saw no prisoners .
26 But peering close I saw no grey at all ;
27 More to the point , at that age , Auntie tells me , I saw no distinction between the two Fathers , both of whom lived in the sky .
28 But before I could phrase the right remark , the question that would show her I saw no reason why in Conchis 's absence she should maintain the pretending to believe , she stood up .
29 I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different ,
30 I saw no one else .
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