Example sentences of "i [adv] saw a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely saw a lesson in which the students had not gone to some considerable length to vary their material and their activities to take account of the level of the class , the length of the lesson and the time of day or week . |
| 2 | I eventually saw a specialist who prescribed something to ‘ kick-start ’ my periods . |
| 3 | I eventually saw a report about striking miners on American TV . |
| 4 | ‘ But I told ye I only saw a shadow . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I just saw a car run into the back of another car and a lorry ended up going sideways ’ , Sacco went on . |
| 6 | I once saw a cellarful of pleasant bindings , all cleaned and polished , waiting shipment to America . |
| 7 | I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below . |
| 8 | And it was not Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery who once stated that : ‘ I once saw a bowler in Australia thunder to the wicket and bowl a flatout underarm to the batsman . |
| 9 | It 's all done up in steel pins and scaffolding to hold it up , and I once saw a computer thing in a museum showing how it shudders when the trains go over . |
| 10 | ’ I once saw a film about a girl in love with a man who had a dickey heart , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I have n't I have n't actually seen one , but I once saw a lady on the bus with one |
| 12 | And I once saw a dancing bear when I was little . |
| 13 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 14 | I once saw a copy of the German illustrated weekly Der Adler in which there were photographs of individual prisoners posing goodnaturedly . |
| 15 | Years later , at a falconry centre , I once saw a falcon miss the bait it was supposed to pick up , fly past , come to a sudden standstill in mid-air , turn 180 degrees and zoom down again . |
| 16 | I once saw a science fiction movie about time-travellers in the future ; towards the end of the film the whole story is speeded up and re-run in about two minutes . |
| 17 | The first time I ever saw a skinhead haircut & Crombie on the same person was in 1978 or 9 . |
| 18 | My wardrobe may not be as current these days , and I hardly saw a movie for a year and a half while I was getting myself back on my feet financially . |
| 19 | Women of all ages were shouting and I clearly saw a handbag swung overarm . |
| 20 | I also saw a vision of a ‘ better ’ world and realised that my duty as a mother was no longer in the kitchen , but in that world . |
| 21 | On this stretch , I even saw a taxi . |
| 22 | She looked sad and worried , and I even saw a tear or two on her face . |
| 23 | ‘ I never saw a play before , ’ said Gabriel , to indicate in the politest possible way that he did not understand one word of what Lucie was telling him . |
| 24 | Except at the cinema , I never saw a man and woman kiss each other , until I was grown up . ) |
| 25 | I never saw a man more white . |
| 26 | During the seven years I was at McKinsey , I never saw a client that seemed to care so much about its people . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know how Mum managed but we were never without food , although we were short on other things — I never saw a television . |
| 28 | I never saw a woman yet you could hold her own with me in talk or love for six minutes together . |
| 29 | I never saw a photograph of him published . |
| 30 | I never saw a copy of the Lancet lying round his living-room . |