Example sentences of "i saw him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her I saw him clear as day . |
| 2 | But once I saw him lumbering down Ward Street , you know , opposite , and he was here as well , messing around with the television . |
| 3 | There was silence then and I thought I saw him shake his head . |
| 4 | The first time I saw him wearing them was an isolated spring day trying its feet in winter . |
| 5 | I was about to break from sheltering rock and follow when I saw him stop aghast and raise one arm involuntarily in a gesture of self-protection . |
| 6 | I saw him return this morning , so pleased with himself . ’ |
| 7 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 8 | The bloke who used to live next door to me , the little Turkish with the sister Lisa he used to eat dog shit , I saw him eat it . |
| 9 | Snoring louder than ever he fumbled again and I saw him insert a small blade into the side of the carriage . |
| 10 | I saw him disappear but , before I could say anything Fergus started yelling . |
| 11 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 12 | Consequentially , when I saw him marching swiftly towards me I permitted myself a brief groan . |
| 13 | I saw him taking Laura out to dinner yesterday evening . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw him leaving Primrose Hill . |
| 15 | Then suddenly I saw him riding towards me . |
| 16 | I saw him grinning ferally as he worked the gun with both hands , spent cartridges flying into the air . |
| 17 | As he was saying goodbye today , I saw him open his mouth and look at me in that way . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw him getting it out when I went to the car to get a book I 'd left there . |
| 19 | I saw him flush it down the toilet so that no-one will laugh at his spotty chest in the showers ! |
| 20 | Ages later I saw him listening to the band and clutching his fistful of Mickeys . |
| 21 | Only I saw him sigh , for Lili and Robert were looking not at him but at the walls , and he found me too negligible to bother to disguise his ennui . |
| 22 | I realize that I am standing just as Summerchild stood that other night , when I saw him gazing with such intensity into his own life . |
| 23 | ‘ Your Grace , I saw him felled . |
| 24 | Once , when he was the centre of attention at the youth club I saw him do it again . |
| 25 | ‘ When I managed to get upright I saw him cocking the gun again , thought he was going to shoot me again and moved towards him to defend myself . ’ |
| 26 | I saw him move the mat so it should be on a slippery bit and then sort of pretend to slip on it , and then start to shout . ’ |
| 27 | When Sir Oswald appeared on the steps , the crowd surged round him and I saw him struck from the right . |
| 28 | I saw him whisper something to Mrs Danby , but she did n't seem to hear him . |
| 29 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 30 | If we took de Guichet himself — I saw him pass the other day , twice as thick as when I knew him , and the beard changes a man , but I knew that thwarted , ambitious face of his — if we took de Guichet himself , would Isambard give us Harry for him ? |