Example sentences of "saw or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And that a witness who seems reluctant even to go and see the patient , let alone state what he saw or get involved in a compensation claim . ’ |
| 2 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |
| 3 | But a glass key I never saw or heard of and can not imagine what use it might be ; it would shiver in any lock . ’ |
| 4 | There were , of course , one or two things that police officers kept to themselves , that the public never saw or heard , and that with the death of the Police Union there were no channels to articulate . |
| 5 | Of course , nobody saw or heard what was going on . |
| 6 | Better proof would be obtained by taking statements from the ‘ other ’ person(s) to say what they saw or heard . |
| 7 | Well , we did n't have much luck out in the open because the rabbits saw or heard or smelt us coming a mile off and bolted down the nearest hole , even though we were mute and trying to stay down wind ( the wind kept switching direction in little gusts ) . |
| 8 | " Then swear to me now , swear that you will never speak of what you saw or heard . |
| 9 | We never saw or heard from her again . ’ |
| 10 | When he saw or heard other people , he slowed to a walk until they were past , then he ran again . |
| 11 | ‘ You saw or heard nothing unusual ? ’ |
| 12 | They probably talked to him already , they 'd have talked to everybody in that block , just asking if they saw or heard anything . |
| 13 | Vechey saw or heard something so he , also , was silenced . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never known anything like it : over two hundred interviews with people who were in the street , mostly in the pubs , at some time between nine and eleven on the night and nobody saw or heard a damn thing . |
| 15 | Finer I never saw or tasted from Barbados or better cured . |
| 16 | You need to be a contortionist when using a traditional clamp to drill , saw or glue together timber . |