Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] see a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently a horse that habitually rears when it is mounted is also likely to rear every time it feels anxious , such as when it is passed by a truck on the road or it sees a monster ; but it is especially likely to rear when it is asked to stand still . |
| 2 | He did n't tell her it broke his heart every time the Argentines hurt a horse or he saw a terrified stray dog racing by the side of the road . |
| 3 | In the late 1950s this order of dress was even more carefully observed and I saw a detective sergeant ordered home to change from Harris tweed jacket and flannels into ‘ proper clothing ’ . |
| 4 | It was in St Andrews and I saw a suit in the window of a boutique . |
| 5 | But if I were a teenager and I saw a TV star telling me that he had taken coke , I would reckon that there must be a reason why the famous spend a fortune on this drug . |
| 6 | I looked out of the window and I saw a queue of people waiting for the bus … and so on . |
| 7 | ‘ The front door wuz open , Mr Oakley , and I saw a definite chink of light from where I wuz situated . ’ |
| 8 | One Queens district resident said : ‘ Yesterday I looked out my window and I saw a guy doing the back stroke down my block . |
| 9 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 10 | I 've already completed mine : my son and I disturbed one on the main path leading up to The Merrick , in Galloway , and ranger Fred Gordon and I saw a very angry one on the path in Glen Cairn in the Cairngorms . |
| 11 | On the fifth day the covers were removed and I saw a tiny fish swimming on the surface . |
| 12 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 13 | They manage to get food sent through to the controlled zones and I saw a van come back laden with fruit which the compañeros had sent them in return . |
| 14 | I looked at Jean-Claude as he gave me these instructions and I saw a side of him I did not recognize . |
| 15 | He opened the boot to put my bags in , and I saw a Colt.45 lying there . |
| 16 | The moonlight shone into my bedroom , as it did then , and I saw a vision on the ceiling , a white figure looking down on me . |
| 17 | Eddie Thorning and I saw a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor , and make money by gaining competitive advantage through an oil-and-parts offer to workshops and petrol stations . ’ |
| 18 | My gaze dropped and I saw a ring — an iridescent opal , set in a circle of rich , blood-red garnets . |
| 19 | It passed me again , drew into the side and I saw a frantically waving arm . |
| 20 | ‘ It was play-time , and I saw a huddle of children near the sheds . |
| 21 | And then he switched abruptly from practicalities , quoting in a stage whisper : ‘ And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth ; for the first Heaven and the first earth were passed away : and there was no more sea . ’ |
| 22 | Just then we reached the gate , and I saw a gentleman on a horse looking over it . |
| 23 | Again the lightning lit the sky , and I saw a huge figure standing in the rain . |
| 24 | And I saw a hole in the bottom at the side of it where they had blasted a hole in it in order to sink it . |
| 25 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 26 | And I saw a hen get killed . |
| 27 | [ … ] 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 … |
| 28 | Let me leave you there for the moment with my views of high morale as I saw it , and I saw a great deal of it during my constant circuit within the Command . |
| 29 | Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed . |
| 30 | ‘ I then heard a series of shots and I saw a number of bodies being dragged away . ’ |