Example sentences of "saw [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Looking round , she saw Madame Gebrec waving from the other side of the narrow street .
2 I saw Mr Callaghan come down the steps of his plane , stop at the foot and greet the throng of journalists waiting on the tarmac to question him about the current discontents .
3 ‘ Do n't say anything , but I saw Bob Lamb going along the beck , so I sent her off that way , too .
4 With bad blood carried over from last year 's clash between the two sides which saw Eric Rush retire from the fray with a broken wrist , the portents were not good .
5 But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it .
6 On the far side of the camp , she saw Jacques Devraux stripping to the waist in order to resume work at the skinning platform , and suddenly unable to remain in the hut any longer , she strolled out across the clearing again .
7 ‘ They went to the cockpit and saw Mark Schmit sitting in the captain 's seat and noticed that certain instruments had been tampered with . ’
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