Example sentences of "[pron] saw [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw a man dissipating so much affection for his country and his associates ’ , said Hakim , struggling to explain to a New York lawyer his bad case of ‘ love at first sight ’ , ‘ that the radiation of that love — it really immediately penetrated through my system . ’ |
| 2 | Suddenly I saw a man cleaning windows in the dark . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We had gone about two miles in this order , when on turning a corner I saw a man sitting on the road , herding buffaloes . |
| 5 | ‘ I saw a man like that at Thunder Bay , ’ he said . |
| 6 | One day I saw a man pulling a small cart . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw a man here the other day . |
| 8 | I was near it when I saw a man sitting on the ground , half asleep . |
| 9 | When I went to the door with my lamp , I saw a man coming slowly upstairs . |
| 10 | I saw a man with a large black beard looking out of the taxi window . |
| 11 | As it was finishing I saw a man who was familiar . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I saw a man bent by work so double |
| 14 | [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them … |
| 15 | Speaking through an interpreter she said : ‘ I saw a man running up the path to the house . |
| 16 | I saw a man drinking avidly from a green scum-covered marsh , where lay , his black face downward in the water , a dead man lying on his stomach and swollen as if he had not stopped filling himself with water for days … |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | And then I saw the man . ’ |
| 19 | I saw the man give a terrified glance over his shoulder , then that metal flail slammed into the side of his head . |
| 20 | Another resident , Williamine Dyson , 65 , who looked after spare keys for the holiday home , said yesterday she saw a man lingering near the base at the end of August and then walking up Campbell Road . |
| 21 | She looked across the hall and visibly relaxed as she saw a man moving swiftly down the staircase . |
| 22 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw a man in a white coat floundering through the snow towards them , and in some intuitive way this increased her anxiety to be off . |
| 23 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 24 | She saw a man picking little hooks from his flesh , each barb raising a blood-bead . |
| 25 | She heard a footfall , she pressed herself back , keeping an eye on the street ; in a doorway , further on , a silhouette detached itself for a moment , and she saw a man throw his head back and shake it as if intoxicated , while holding his arms extended , and she fancied she heard him speak to his own fidanzata of that evening , she imagined him murmuring about her hair — as dark as a raven 's wing , perhaps ? |
| 26 | Suddenly she saw a man 's face in the light of a fire . |
| 27 | A lot of people came in , and she saw a man and his wife . |
| 28 | Opening the door a crack she saw a man in a clerical collar and a woman beside him . |
| 29 | Just as she reached it , the light from a lantern spilled on to the square , and she saw a man enter the place behind it . |
| 30 | The victim had been in a ground floor classroom when she saw a man 's face at the window . |