Example sentences of "he saw [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just a couple of months afterwards , playing India in Trinidad with three spin bowlers in his team , he saw them reach 406 for 4 to win the match , only the second time a team had passed 400 runs to win a Test . |
| 2 | Not long afterwards , watching , he saw them appear on the roof They looked around for a moment and then went down . |
| 3 | He saw them bind the arm of the man he had wounded . |
| 4 | He saw them lay out food on the grass beneath both trees . |
| 5 | My husband was in the fields and he saw them blow up our new house . |
| 6 | Taczek stood in the hallway of the second floor outside his flat , solid arms akimbo , the smile dissolving from his face as he saw them climb the stairs . |
| 7 | He was gratified , therefore , when he saw them come into the church at Gillamoor , accompanied by Victoria , and the three year old Hilary . |
| 8 | And then he saw them come into the amber flicker of the firelight with the flames lighting green lamps in their heads . |
| 9 | He saw him throw the noose towards him . |
| 10 | He saw him pull a couple of rabbits out from under a bush so he must have had the boots too . ’ |
| 11 | At last , just as Hazel was about to run down the slope to Blackberry 's burrow , he saw him come out of his hole , followed by no less than three rabbits . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | He watched closely as the emperor rose from his throne , and when he saw him bow low in his direction , he allowed a little smile of polite acknowledgment to play across his face before he turned and strode majestically back to join his entourage . |
| 14 | Albert said , ‘ I 'm sure he did see Mr Evans and I think what he saw him take was an envelope . |
| 15 | He wanted the youth to go away , for in his mind he saw him fall back with a suppressed scream of terror and pain , holding a handkerchief to his face . |
| 16 | Taylor , 22 , from Inverurie , said he first realised Murray was involved in drug-taking when he saw him stick a needle in his arm at the depot . |
| 17 | He came after me , but he stopped when he saw me go inside ( as I instinctively knew he would — the only safe place from him was down here ) . |
| 18 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 19 | He was obviously embarrassed at his lack of preparedness and when he saw me glance involuntarily at my watch he grew more agitated , pulling his pipe from his mouth and putting it back in again , tucking the hammer under his arm , rummaging in a large box of matches . |
| 20 | He saw me hesitate and misread the body language . |
| 21 | The greyly persistent Detective Chief Inspector emerged like a turtle from his shell when he saw us arrive , and he 'd come alone for once : no silent note-taker in his shadow . |
| 22 | for a while and when he saw us last he was frightened and he 's not now |
| 23 | He saw us take lodgings at a tavern in Muswell Street . ’ |
| 24 | He saw you play , one summer when you occupied — was it a Figtree ? — ; before the break for tea — nobody 'd done that before . |
| 25 | He saw it move , jumped for a hold and found one . |
| 26 | He saw it drop out of sight below the lip . |
| 27 | He saw it break its flight over a dell between the dunes , soar vertically and then head off at an angle . |
| 28 | By the light of the second lamp , he saw it disappear through a hole in one of the great pictures on the wall . |
| 29 | Following its flight in the binoculars he saw it make a sweep over a rough piece of land shunned by the golf course architect , a triangle of unsuitable terrain enclosed by the 2nd , 9th and 17th holes . |