Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] see the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she collapsed she saw the last of the assassins crumple , his body lifted once then once again as the shells ripped into him . |
| 2 | Several times she thought she saw the tall figure of the guide , only to be disappointed . |
| 3 | Who did we see the last time we were here ? |
| 4 | ILY BRATINA , an economist and veteran of two world wars and the Russian Revolution who said he saw the charred body of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker , has died aged 96 . |
| 5 | She said she saw the two defendants tormenting an elderly woman by prodding her from behind . |
| 6 | We took her to see the Three Howes , prehistoric mounds on the summit of the moors . |
| 7 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 8 | When he did they saw the dead animal and , in fury at being deprived of their sport , they ran the hermit through with their boar staves . |