Example sentences of "saw him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I saw him on the street the other day |
| 32 | His parents were Anglo-Welsh , his father a beer-drinking , musical miner killed in a pit accident when the boy was fourteen ; his mother dogged , the one who bound a steel hoop of gentility around her Philip , the one who somehow saw him to the University of Wales from which he emerged aged twenty with a double honours degree in History and Mathematics . |
| 33 | I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London . |
| 34 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 35 | But a witness saw him outside the premises . |
| 36 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 37 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 38 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 39 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 40 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 41 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 42 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 43 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 44 | Herr Nordern shook hands with him , escorted him to the door , and saw him down the stairs as an excited buzz broke out among the family . |
| 45 | Aye I saw him down the pub . |
| 46 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 47 | I saw him by the camp-fire , standing next to my mum , watching me hungrily . |
| 48 | Tony Soper was Nature 's early-riser and this programme suggested it is something of a habit with him , for we also saw him in the Falklands carrying out an investigation into whether the war — or was it just a conflict ? — had upset the wildlife there . |
| 49 | On Lord Tebbit he said : ‘ I saw him in the members lobby trying to persuade new members to vote against the Government , and that is appalling . |
| 50 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 51 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 52 | And a Romanian woman in London swears she saw him in the street as he dived into a taxi . |
| 53 | And then , she saw him in the corner of the dim room . |
| 54 | I thought the plan had failed when , looking back on the hill there , I saw him in the valley . |
| 55 | I saw him in the driving mirror . |
| 56 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
| 57 | Turning slowly , she saw him in the doorway , cool and laconic , inspecting her curled-up figure dispassionately . |
| 58 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 59 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 60 | I saw him in the forest a couple of days ago . |