Example sentences of "he saw [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked up , frowning , and started almost out of his skin as he saw four heads gawping in . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink . |
| 3 | Les Aspin , a member of the US Congress and chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee , said he had a ‘ nasty surprise ’ when he saw Soviet tanks fitted with the multi-layer reactive armour during a visit to the Ukraine in August . |
| 4 | He saw pliant girls offering him the laurels of victory before they fainted before his conquering feet . |
| 5 | As such , he saw Darwinian theory as having something to say to social scientists , even though he also emphasised that there is a ‘ cultural ’ level specifically associated with conceptualising human beings . |
| 6 | From the outside of the bend , he saw Golden Girl . |
| 7 | But he saw Central America as a new stumbling block . |
| 8 | Because Proust saw involuntary memory , which after all causes the past to coalesce with the present , he saw involuntary memory as a means of abolishing time , however provisionally , however briefly , and in this way the artist takes on a God-like role , since through his art he can free the individual from time , and to this extent confer immortality on that individual . |
| 9 | He saw dark eyes with no recognition in them . |
| 10 | He saw legal authority as characteristic of modern Western societies . |
| 11 | He saw one man hitting another . |
| 12 | He saw one man motioning animatedly with his arms , as if to deflect the other boat from its route . |
| 13 | He says he saw one person fall but he was n't hrut and it seems safe . |
| 14 | When my father went on an embalming course he saw one fellah eating his sandwiches , reading a book propped against a body . |
| 15 | He said , He saw one boy hit one of these tops and it went straight over a house top . |
| 16 | THE only civilian witness to the events surrounding the deaths of two teenage joyriders in Northern Ireland claimed yesterday he saw one soldier attack another . |
| 17 | He says he saw one job but that 's already gone and that was last week . |
| 18 | apart from one Reverend the most Reverend Doyle or something and he saw one gunmen and he saw him fire a couple of shots and they told him to piss off out of sort of thing |
| 19 | After walking for about 20 minutes he saw two red pinpoints ahead of him , the tail-lights of a car . |
| 20 | As he ran he saw two dots appear on the lip of the entrance . |
| 21 | The tide was coming in and , as he rounded the rocks which screened the Cove , he saw two things : a courting couple doing what he felt to be far more than courting and then something a little further away which made his heart miss a beat . |
| 22 | and he saw two sweaters in there that he really liked |
| 23 | The pilot of a puma helicopter flying between the Magnus Oil platform and another platform when he saw two bombers ahead of him . |
| 24 | One of the neighbours told officers he saw two youths running away from the scene just prior to the fire being discovered . |
| 25 | Mr Norrie had been walking along Leith 's Great Junction Street on Friday evening when he saw two youths approaching him . |
| 26 | He saw two eyes and then the cloak was thrown away from the face and he could see that it was her , blue-lipped with cold , reaching for him . |
| 27 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |
| 28 | And then he saw two men . |
| 29 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 30 | As he went out of the shelter , he saw two people with a barrow , a man and a woman , he says . |