Example sentences of "[noun sg] saw was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though what the eye saw was increasingly dismal . |
| 2 | The first person Charity saw was him . |
| 3 | Therefore the letter is either a fake , or the diver the writer saw was a Russian still inspecting the ship for other British frogmen . |
| 4 | Gramley ( p. 20 ) seems to be on much the same track when he notes , concerning I saw the library to have burned down : What the speaker saw was not an occurrence , but physical evidence for a condition , a state ; for example , the speaker saw the site , the ruins . |
| 5 | But what I in fact saw was the familiar white chalk of north-west Europe with black flints and old fossil friends such as Micrarter and Echinocorys . |