Example sentences of "he see a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 2 | Sometimes , he sees a blade of light in the darkness and thinks : ‘ There is Crevecoeur ! |
| 3 | ‘ And if he sees a word like camel with parts of the letters C , M and L missed out , he identifies that word faster than anyone else — and that includes my PhD students . ’ |
| 4 | If he sees a gleam of light , it is in the clubs — some of them anyway — who tackle the tourists before they play Wales . |
| 5 | Turning round he saw a litter of bones strewn among the furrows . |
| 6 | Unbelievably , for a split second , he was sure he saw a look of relief on the face of Nell Anderson . |
| 7 | On July 15 , 1927 he saw a kind of Peterloo massacre in Vienna . |
| 8 | Dougal watched Henry 's face : he could have sworn he saw a flash of disappointment there . |
| 9 | In that dream he saw a vision of loveliness : himself as Foreign Secretary . |
| 10 | Behind them he saw a pair of horses , obviously having been warned off , turning to ride through a field , the colours of the riders ' helmets very bright against the pale , cold , February sky . |
| 11 | Instead he saw a pair of gloves , suspended in water and waving fleshless fingers at him . |
| 12 | There he saw a pair of motor torpedo boats tied up at one of the quays and decided to attack . |
| 13 | Drawing back the curtains , he saw a pair of men in blue overalls get out of a black police car , open the gates to the yard and give a mock salute as the driver and his passenger drove in . |
| 14 | He saw a parallel with Durham 's situation , where mining is being taken away , but it still dominates . |
| 15 | He was looking , without seeming to look , at Andropulos as he said the last words and felt almost certain that he saw a flicker of expression cross his face . |
| 16 | And through the archway that opened into the saloon , he saw a flicker of light . |
| 17 | In it he saw a man from Macedonia calling to him . |
| 18 | He saw a mass of freckles — sometimes melding into sixpenny-sized brown patches of warmth — moving over the hard frame of cheekbones and brow . |
| 19 | Sometimes he saw a row of trees on the horizon . |
| 20 | The first time he drove into Adam 's Creek he saw a picture of Creed in a store window and he stabbed the brake . |
| 21 | He saw a splash of white in among the greens of the vegetation : it was Marie 's hair . |
| 22 | Kicking it open he saw a group of officers , probably pilots , and emptied the contents of a tommy-gun into them . |
| 23 | A yawning gap opened up before him and , down below , he saw a group of people staring up at him , arms waving . |
| 24 | He had nearly reached the church when he saw a group of people approaching him . |
| 25 | Any vestige of friendship Grassi might have retained was to disappear when he saw a letter from Florence claiming that the Jesuits would be powerless to answer Galileo 's arguments . |
| 26 | He saw a gleam of hope appear in Roy 's eyes . |
| 27 | Well it was a waste well I 'll tell you what it was really , he saw a lot of waste on the other tables going on the tip you know , there was a lot of waste going over . |
| 28 | Naylor entered the building and was still looking for me when there on the mat right outside your door he saw a set of keys which he instantly recognised as mine from the Alsace wine fob on the key-ring . ’ |
| 29 | He saw a bobby in trouble at Old Swan , got off the tram-car to help him , and he got his mac torn . |
| 30 | When David Bailey was sixteen years old , he saw a photograph of Picasso 's paintings in Life magazine ; he says that those images changed his life . |