Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] see a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And through another he saw a classroom with lots of tiny desks and a blackboard at one end .
2 Unbelievably , for a split second , he was sure he saw a look of relief on the face of Nell Anderson .
3 The train drew in to Penn Station with the arguments still raging round Uncle Mick 's grizzled head , but that head was still unbowed and at one time Denis was sure he saw a wink in the wicked old eye as he took on about three arguments at once and lost all of them .
4 Then in 1978 he saw a paper by three Soviet scientists which reported that there were anomalous amounts of helium-3 in some metals ; the Soviets suggested that it was being produced by fusion — fusion induced by cosmic rays .
5 Kicking it open he saw a group of officers , probably pilots , and emptied the contents of a tommy-gun into them .
6 It 's true we saw a lot of the negative side of human behaviour , but there was also a lot of the positive side .
7 On July 15 , 1927 he saw a kind of Peterloo massacre in Vienna .
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