Example sentences of "saw [noun prp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He narrowed his eyes and saw Hope the Merchant Prince , the aristocrat at large on the Rialtos of the world , feared , admired , dipping silkenly between caskets of treasure , tranches of land , ships , silver mines , paintings , furniture , the collector , the connoisseur , and sending all back to the lonely Scottish estate which burgeoned with those foreign infusions of antique wealth , material goods …
2 But the luxurious tropical oasis that was the Hamiltons ' house , and the fact that she saw Tom every day and had become friends with him , had led her to drop her guard without fully realising that she had done so , and now she was utterly vulnerable to him .
3 I looked for the first time straight into his moonlit eyes , and I saw Perkin the son , the husband , the one who worked with wood .
4 For a week Raoul saw Christine every day .
5 I remember one Sunday afternoon when I saw Zebbie the Coalpicker pushing a bicycle up the hill with a sack of coals on the cross-bar .
6 In fact I rather gather he saw Paul the night he died . ’
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