Example sentences of "[pron] see [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took me to see a man who had the whole story . |
| 2 | ‘ I saw a man dissipating so much affection for his country and his associates ’ , said Hakim , struggling to explain to a New York lawyer his bad case of ‘ love at first sight ’ , ‘ that the radiation of that love — it really immediately penetrated through my system . ’ |
| 3 | Suddenly I saw a man cleaning windows in the dark . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We had gone about two miles in this order , when on turning a corner I saw a man sitting on the road , herding buffaloes . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw a man like that at Thunder Bay , ’ he said . |
| 7 | One day I saw a man pulling a small cart . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw a man here the other day . |
| 9 | I was near it when I saw a man sitting on the ground , half asleep . |
| 10 | When I went to the door with my lamp , I saw a man coming slowly upstairs . |
| 11 | I saw a man with a large black beard looking out of the taxi window . |
| 12 | As it was finishing I saw a man who was familiar . |
| 13 | White blurs passed around us and coloured pills stuck in my throat but , from time to time , I saw a man in a room on my own and he always asked me how I was feeling . |
| 14 | I saw a man bent by work so double |
| 15 | [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them … |
| 16 | Speaking through an interpreter she said : ‘ I saw a man running up the path to the house . |
| 17 | I saw a man drinking avidly from a green scum-covered marsh , where lay , his black face downward in the water , a dead man lying on his stomach and swollen as if he had not stopped filling himself with water for days … |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | And then I saw the man . ’ |
| 20 | I saw the man give a terrified glance over his shoulder , then that metal flail slammed into the side of his head . |
| 21 | An I see de man from inside yu revealing . |
| 22 | A woman points one way but I see a man with a bulge in his coat and I leap on him . |
| 23 | ‘ I see a man , ’ he replied softly . |
| 24 | ‘ I see a man , ’ she said at last . |
| 25 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 26 | After a brief second to get accustomed to the gloom , I see a man seated in a high-backed Captain Kirk-style chair . |
| 27 | That when I see the man who armoured stood |
| 28 | ‘ What 's the matter , Robyn , have n't you seen a man 's body this close before ? |
| 29 | ‘ Did you see the man about the sailboard ? ’ he asked as they left the town limits behind . |
| 30 | Suddenly , she sees a man near an upstairs window . |