Example sentences of "[pron] see a [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And when I was up in the tree , ’ she added , gazing up at him , ‘ I saw a thief climb into the Botanical Gardens and dig up a lot of bulbs and put them in a big case and go off with them ! ’ |
| 2 | I saw a documentary programme about the Manchester United team that was destroyed by the Munich disaster . |
| 3 | Through cobwebby windows I saw a relief model of the surrounding mountains and a large vacant video screen hanging from the ceiling . |
| 4 | As I was closing the door I saw a car turn into the end of the street , very slowly and very quietly , driving on sidelights only . |
| 5 | I mean like I saw a double-decker bus on the moon and that sort of stuff . |
| 6 | SOME months ago I saw a television documentary on hostels for young homeless people in London . |
| 7 | I saw a spaceship land near the house . |
| 8 | I saw a Greenpeace advert in the paper . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw a motorbike combination by the side of the track . |
| 10 | But you have to develop an eye for spotting possibilities ; a kind of ‘ picture eye ’ which sees a winter sky in the grain marking on one particular piece of veneer or a rock formation in the figure on another . |
| 11 | Have you seen a pencil sharpener in here ? |
| 12 | Have you seen a weather forecast for ? |
| 13 | She saw a stone lioness at the mouth of a stone cave , guarding her cubs . |
| 14 | Ronni imagined she saw a question form in his eyes and already she was forming her answer in her head . |
| 15 | He frowned and she saw a muscle twitch in his jaw . |
| 16 | She saw a shadow move across the wall opposite her as the other woman paced violently . |
| 17 | When she saw a curtain move in one of the palace windows , she believed it was a signal of love from the King . |
| 18 | Fans of the Good Morning programme who saw a holiday report on Amsterdam , presented by on May 5 , may be surprised to know they were in fact watching a colleague . |
| 19 | Carry on to Seacombe Cliff and turn up Seacombe Bottom until you see a stone marker on the left . |
| 20 | The next time you see a GP rider in a post-race sweat , do n't wonder why . |
| 21 | Even when you see a stage performance of hypnotism and it seems as though the ‘ unwilling ’ subjects are being made to act against their will , that is not really the case . |
| 22 | Incidentally , if you see a catalogue description of ‘ antique ’ applied to a binding , it usually means exactly the opposite . |
| 23 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |
| 24 | We saw a gangster film of New York during which Signe kept saying , ‘ That 's near where I live . ’ |
| 25 | When we got to within quarter of an hour q sorry quarter of a mile of the the actual village itself , and remember it 's quarter of a mile I 'm talking about not ten yards fifteen yards away , we saw a railway embankment in front of us . |
| 26 | One night she brought him to see a horror film about the Living Dead , and he was so frightened by the zombies that he fled into the foyer in a panic . |
| 27 | They were to take the road to Foligno , turn right towards Cannara just beyond Santa Maria degli Angeli and drive until they saw a telegraph pole with a yellow mark . |
| 28 | They saw a news item about the deaths on television and advised Gore to give himself up to police . |
| 29 | It is interesting to note that a number of new users , rather than inject , snorted heroin as they previously had done with speed and coke until they saw a television programme on Hong Kong which ‘ instructed ’ them how to chase the dragon . |
| 30 | They see a market opportunity on the right among disgruntled Christian Democrats who like the Germany-first message of the far right but dislike its extremist image . |