Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north .
2 In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy .
3 The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time .
4 She got the doctor and his wife into their coats and saw them out of the front door .
5 Now relaxed and talkative , he saw me back to the waiting taxi and told me of his ambitions as a Gaelic football player .
6 Indeed it had been the combination of Rowthorne 's suggestion and her fury over the pin-up issue which saw her on to the editorial board .
7 They saw her off into the splashed black and rainy yellow night .
8 Rostov scanned the platform above for Alexei and saw him finally on the topmost section of the catwalk .
9 Wycliffe came out into the sunshine , blinking ; Emily saw him off like an old friend .
10 He saw him now as a possible Archbishop of Canterbury .
11 He was a hero to the people who saw him only as a little waif , when actually he was a pudding of hatred . ’
12 On the second day after she first saw the white gleam she saw it again in the same place .
13 Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through .
14 He saw it now as a crowding darkness of giant shapes against the merlons of the curtain wall , dominated by the eyeletted walls of the tall hexagonal keep .
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