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Example sentences of "[pron] saw them [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I saw them on telly at my mate 's house .
2	and er I saw them on a rack and they were
3	Surprisingly , however , all these verbs ( except , apparently , watch can also be construed with the to infinitive : ( 36 ) I saw them to be obnoxious .
4	those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound .
5	And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front .
6	I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed .
7	They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time .
8	Well I saw them at the , er round the corner at Mount Man Road , on that estate
9	I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases .
10	‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’
11	I saw them as a people honed by sun and wind to essential flesh and bone , accustomed since childhood to hardship , possessed of extraordinary mobility and genius for war .
12	I saw them in the field with the fallen stones .
13	Well I I saw them in Mill , but I did n't know which size , size you need actually I saw some in Mill .
14	I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh !
15	I saw them against Genoa and I was very impressed .
16	I saw them from the window and called to them that I would tell the police who they were .
17	‘ I saw them from my window .
18	I saw them from the penthouse bar
19	The reciprocity measures , as originally drafted in 1988 , had aroused particularly strong protests from the USA and from Japan , which saw them as part of a protectionist " fortress Europe " policy designed to exclude non-EC institutions .
20	She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week .
21	She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come .
22	She saw them as emanations of his own tormented , neurotic , anally fixated personality , and nothing to do with herself .
23	She saw them in the sky , just a small group of them , but they brought death , she knew that , as they flew steadily on through the calm of the summer morning .
24	She could hardly bear to think she would never see this pretty place again , nor speak with the cheerful villagers , drink beer in María 's café and get hugs from the children when she saw them in Miguel 's clinic .
25	You saw them on the television — they never gave up hope , campaigning and running lonely vigils in the long nights .
26	There 's about fifty Europeans on the island — including Americans — and there 's plenty of men anxious to do a bit of gardening , or women ready to earn a day 's wages doing the laundry — you saw them at work — or sewing .
27	George , a former school truant and now a construction trainee , said : ‘ At least I did something … but the others , you saw them at school , just lazy . ’
28	You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point .
29	You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point .
30	When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists .