Example sentences of "we saw [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw her doll , always with her on the arm of the chair , but Theresa was never there . |
| 2 | After a while , sitting in the car , we saw her stand for a few minutes first on one of the Howes , then on another , still and with arms raised . |
| 3 | This time we really thought we had lost her , but some time later we saw her crawl underneath my Portakabin . |
| 4 | Lexico-syntactic ambiguity : We saw her duck . |
| 5 | We saw her jump from the roof and fall to her death . |
| 6 | I was down the market with this other girl , and we saw her mum there . |
| 7 | We saw her troubled dark eyes close , |
| 8 | We saw her room first . |
| 9 | ‘ Chrissie was supposed to be enrolling for a teachers ’ training course all we saw her doing was peeling potatoes and with her hands in the sink for six weeks . |
| 10 | it an Uno and we saw her last week was n't it ? |
| 11 | Although it hardly seemed fair racing a man at least 15 years our senior , who could resist going just a little faster every time we saw his face contorted with exertion , glaring up at us like Charles Laughton in Mutiny On The Bounty ? |
| 12 | Farmer Nash was n't at the market , and a few minutes later we saw his angry red face above the wall on the far side of the field . |
| 13 | We saw his glory , the glory which he received as the Father 's only Son . |
| 14 | I think we all felt a little like Dave as we saw his wife and two sons on the quay and met many of his friends . |
| 15 | We saw his sledge just in front of you on the night before the storm . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We saw his importance by his absence against Norway . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We saw your gun . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well — we saw your last interview . |
| 19 | They reached the surgery door at the same time as the strange little group and , as they ushered their client in , he said , ‘ We were just going to Sheldrake and Woodall when we saw your plate on Broom House gate . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We were just passing and we saw your plate on the gate , ’ said the tall elder one , ‘ and we thought it might be a good idea to — well , try you out . ’ |
| 21 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 22 | It is unlikely that any of us could remember the first time we saw our own reflection ( mirrors often form part of toys aimed at very small babies , such as activity mats or cot toys , and there are , of course , lakes , kettles and other possibilities for reflection ) ; what is likely is that it was a member of our family ( probably our mother ) who told us : ‘ That 's you , that 's what you look like ’ . |
| 23 | Naturalism was a psychological penetration of the motives of the bourgeois , in whom we saw our mortal enemy , and psychological penetration , despite all efforts at resistance , brings an identification with the various precepts of bourgeois morality … |
| 24 | At Vigo we saw our first other light aircraft since leaving France . |
| 25 | I do n't think gay men changed their habits because of advertisements ; we did so , some of us , because we saw our friends dying of it and the horrible effect that it has . |
| 26 | Our policy-making seemed stuck in a time warp in which we saw our role as offering help to a disadvantaged majority against a privileged minority — seemingly unaware that income is no longer distributed in a pattern that is pyramidal , but is egg-shaped . |
| 27 | But we had another few hundred feet to manage before we saw our goal . |
| 28 | We had come in search of raptors and we saw our first after only five minutes of walking . |
| 29 | Here we saw our first knife-fight which was clearly to the death — and Abu hustled us away from the milling throng which surrounded the two furious young combatants who rolled around like snakes in the dust attempting to stab each other with their " badiks " , the seaman 's dagger which few of the locals went without . |
| 30 | Erm it it varied really w we saw our role in general as being to support and and facilitate the activities that they wanted to get involved |