Example sentences of "saw the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dovaston said witnesses had told police they saw the two men shout to Magee to catch up with them . |
| 2 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |
| 3 | PC Aspinall arrived on the scene and saw the two men pushing a car . |
| 4 | He saw the blond man he had wounded , Hugh they called him , walk over to the bush where the sack was . |
| 5 | Only when they saw the hooded men with blood-covered knives approaching their cars did they realise what lay in store for them . |
| 6 | Crossley 's mouth dropped open as he saw the taller man pull a gun into view . |
| 7 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue . |
| 8 | She saw the young man hesitate , then veer away . |
| 9 | I saw the young man lived in Penn … . ’ 'Such dreadful things happen in families nowadays , ’ she said ( I liked ‘ nowadays ’ ) . |
| 10 | But when Siegfried drove away , the activity stopped abruptly and as I was leaving with my pockets stuffed with the equipment for my round I glanced into the sitting room and saw the young man stretched in his favourite chair . |
| 11 | ‘ The tavern wench says she saw the young man and woman who were later found murdered in the forest . |
| 12 | As he saw the first men fall in the ambush , Lachlan 's shipmaster yelled for his men to fall back . |
| 13 | He saw the curly-haired man with the red scar on his left cheek talking to two short-skirted , high-heeled girls , who were no more than sixteen years old . |
| 14 | Killion saw the three men come in , and turned his back on them . |
| 15 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 16 | They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . |
| 17 | He saw the old man 's face , the half-smile he still remembered so well . |
| 18 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 19 | that is , until they saw the old man 's face , |
| 20 | He saw the old man as in need of what , by current standards was a very small sum to enable him to wind up his affairs . |
| 21 | I suppose you saw the old man about it . ’ |
| 22 | He saw the blind man and a look of fear passed across his face . |
| 23 | Clare looked up and saw the tallest man she had ever seen ; he had curly black hair and black-lashed , dark brown eyes , now filled with worry . |
| 24 | Once more she saw the attractive man she had noticed in the High Street , and her colour rose as she recalled how she had hoped to meet him some day . |