Example sentences of "saw [noun prp] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he saw Duclos striding back across the compound dragging a young Annamese boy behind him , he smiled quietly to himself , stepped back into his bedroom and began fumbling with the buttons of his silk shirt . |
| 2 | The next thing , he saw Lee looking out of the window . |
| 3 | She almost cried out in shock as she saw Ana moving quickly across the old court , drifting like someone in a dream . |
| 4 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 5 | She hesitated , just about to say yes , and at that moment saw Karl coming slowly down the steps of the Franz Joseph pulling on his driving gloves . |
| 6 | Then as she looked she saw Kate getting out of the back . |
| 7 | Blunt , coming up behind him and hauling back on the control column to get his plane over the hedge , saw Peacock sliding out of the sky and tried to turn inside him . |
| 8 | At the same time , out of the comer of his eye , he saw Tony coming out of the ticket-booth . |
| 9 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |