Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight of their first 10 concerts were in Leeds but a rare excursion saw them appear at the Old Bell pub in Derby . |
| 2 | If both prisoners stay mum , the police have a witness who saw them co-operate on a lesser crime , one that would put them both behind bars for two years . |
| 3 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 4 | The Pumas path to the final saw them account for the second Hallamshire squad represented at the weekend , thus ending any aspirations of Yorkshire success . |
| 5 | Portugal , with star winger Paulo Futre back in the side after being dropped , will have been encouraged by Italy 's recent poor form which saw them held to a goalless draw in Scotland and then struggle to overcome Malta 2-1 . |
| 6 | And then he saw them come into the amber flicker of the firelight with the flames lighting green lamps in their heads . |
| 7 | Jarvis saw them get into the next car and on an impulse he jumped up and followed them . |
| 8 | One morning , on his way down to breakfast , Dada saw her kneeling on the left-hand flight of the double staircase ; thinking she was saying her prayers , she was bent so low , Dada stepped past her politely . |
| 9 | A patrol saw her weaving across a dual carriageway as she drove home to Abergavenny from Oakfield Primary School in Pontypool , South Wales . |
| 10 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 11 | With swift steps he crossed to the glazed door and saw her crouched before a flowerbed , apparently engrossed in the task of tugging weeds from between the flowering rose bushes . |
| 12 | I myself saw him parading through the stunned streets , with courtiers , in his carriage , pushed by a white horse like a paper bag full of water and bones . |
| 13 | He glanced at Lambert and saw him blaze at a green-and-yellow plane , then bank hard away as tracer scorched past . |
| 14 | She looked over , and saw him sprawled over the inbuilt mini-heater vent . |
| 15 | Endill ran to the door expecting to see him crashing into the sea but when he looked down , saw him clinging to a wooden beam sticking out of the rock . |
| 16 | I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter . |
| 17 | As she rounded the gates of the school she saw him sitting on a low wall , his little legs dangling , swinging backwards and forwards . |
| 18 | He was tall and stolidly built , giving an impression of shambling clumsiness until one saw him working in a confined space when he would seem physically to contract and become compact , even graceful , moving about the body with the lightness and precision of a cat . |
| 19 | The longer she gazed down , through the tendril of tobacco smoke , the more the meeting merged into the older , stronger established patterns and colours of the valley floor until , eyes half-closed , she saw it disappear into the ancient landscape … |
| 20 | They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay . |
| 21 | She saw it struggling against a mighty wind , but unable to smite anything tangible within its . |
| 22 | I was about to return fire but saw it came from a Croatian position . ’ |
| 23 | She looked at Lily 's shrunk and sanded face , abstracted on some pinnacle of pain , and saw it lanced by the fierce thrust of grass and sucked dry by the brutal assault of flowers . |