Example sentences of "see a [noun] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 2 | Like Samuel stated , in a woman suffered strokes , seventy eight percent will survive at least one , have you ever seen a person with a stroke ? |
| 3 | Have you ever seen a person with a stroke ? |
| 4 | The early Church , noting that this miracle took place in the wilderness , ‘ a lonely place ’ , would have seen a parallel with the feeding of the children of Israel with manna in the wilderness of the Sinai desert . |
| 5 | He had seen a boat with a man in it , not far from the beach . |
| 6 | If you 've seen a hospital with no water or power , no facilities — what child is going to survive this ? |
| 7 | Mum , have you ever seen a duck with a bow-tie on ? |
| 8 | They could see a man with a ladder up against the cinema putting up the new poster , and the small round figure of Peggy Pine coming out of her dress shop to stand and look admiringly at her window display . |
| 9 | Now if you look in your tray you 'll see a label with a number on . |
| 10 | A couple of weeks after Brighton she came into the shop , presuming we were going out together that evening — without having told me what she intended , I 'd arranged to go and see a band with a mate from art college . |
| 11 | ‘ Straight down the drive , madam , and you 'll see a notice with an arrow . ’ |
| 12 | Not knowing what else to say , she looked back towards the stage area in time to see a man with a fiddle emerge from a side-room , and all conversation magically hushed . |
| 13 | Startled , she turned to see a man with a gun walking out of the folly and then , to her relief , a dog at his heels . |
| 14 | I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat . |
| 15 | Cos they said , one boy , a boy , a police officer the other times thought he saw a boy with a knife and he shot him . |
| 16 | I thought it might of been Pat sort of at that time , but erm when I looked out I saw a man with a billboard thing |
| 17 | Points were awarded for where information was repeated ; for example , for the sentence ‘ I saw a man with a telescope ’ , the reading where the prepositional phrase attaches to the verb would score more highly because ‘ telescope ’ was defined as a thing for seeing or looking with . |
| 18 | There was an echo , and no man ever saw a ghost with a shadow , so why should a ghost 's voice have an echo ? |
| 19 | I saw a fellow with a gun . |
| 20 | What was it the air-raid wardens shouted when they saw a house with a chink of light showing ? |
| 21 | A woman points one way but I see a man with a bulge in his coat and I leap on him . |
| 22 | Yeah and we see a lorry with a bloke he was doing like that looking out the back and we all go Ahhhh ! |