Example sentences of "saw a [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all started when she saw a hamster in a pet shop and decided to get another to keep him company . |
| 2 | Walking on up to Glencoe I saw a canary at a window with an ‘ I Love Ballachulish ’ sticker on the base of its cage . |
| 3 | Cos they said , one boy , a boy , a police officer the other times thought he saw a boy with a knife and he shot him . |
| 4 | Next day , footsore , he saw a bicycle beside a house and , with nobody in sight , he quickly mounted it and rode ‘ like the clappers ’ , feeling that every time a car passed him , it might be the police . |
| 5 | I thought it might of been Pat sort of at that time , but erm when I looked out I saw a man with a billboard thing |
| 6 | Points were awarded for where information was repeated ; for example , for the sentence ‘ I saw a man with a telescope ’ , the reading where the prepositional phrase attaches to the verb would score more highly because ‘ telescope ’ was defined as a thing for seeing or looking with . |
| 7 | Sometime during the next day he saw a man in a harness being lowered by cable towards Corti ; heard a shout : ‘ I have him ! ’ |
| 8 | White blurs passed around us and coloured pills stuck in my throat but , from time to time , I saw a man in a room on my own and he always asked me how I was feeling . |
| 9 | If the foreman saw a tree in a channel , or a shoal forming , he did not worry whether it was doing any harm or not ; he played safe and had it out . |
| 10 | ’ I once saw a film about a girl in love with a man who had a dickey heart , ’ he said . |
| 11 | There was an echo , and no man ever saw a ghost with a shadow , so why should a ghost 's voice have an echo ? |
| 12 | However , the November 1985 review saw a return to a policy of discriminating against child benefit . |
| 13 | As she looked down he felt a tug at the upper sail , and saw a flash of a wing . |
| 14 | and Wesley were lovers Will wanted to give Wes something warm as a special present an officer 's red uniform He saw a sign for a shuttle race officer prizes red . |
| 15 | Will wanted to give Wes something warm as a special present an officer 's red uniform He saw a sign for a shuttle race officer ship red . |
| 16 | Just then we reached the gate , and I saw a gentleman on a horse looking over it . |
| 17 | ‘ I saw a headline on an article about Kylie once which read ‘ I should be so ordinary ’ and I thought , ‘ Yeah , that 's exactly right ’ . |
| 18 | In 1933 , I saw a notice in a doctor 's shop window stating ‘ Examinations one shilling and sixpence ; with stethoscope two shillings ’ . |
| 19 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 20 | I saw a fellow with a gun . |
| 21 | ‘ … Er — Ven , ’ she completed — and saw a hint of a smile touch his quite devastating-looking mouth , before he touched a hand to her elbow , and guided her to his drawing-room . |
| 22 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 23 | He saw a youth in a struggle with three men and ran to his aid . |
| 24 | The municipal railings had been taken away for the war effort and through the gaps in the makeshift fence of galvanised iron he saw a tramp in an army greatcoat sitting on a green bench . |
| 25 | What was it the air-raid wardens shouted when they saw a house with a chink of light showing ? |
| 26 | She adored greasers , saw a motorbike as a symbol of freedom:just climb on and go . |
| 27 | My wardrobe may not be as current these days , and I hardly saw a movie for a year and a half while I was getting myself back on my feet financially . |
| 28 | IN THE days when a pocket calculator cost £100 and microcomputers were a thing of the future , I saw a niche for a book of cartoons of the genre that appeared in the computer rags . |
| 29 | I saw a picture of a sign |
| 30 | I saw a picture of a man |