Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] saw the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He hated and desired her , but she could n't let him know she saw the desire . |
| 2 | The tears gathered more thickly in his eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under a dripping tree . |
| 3 | John Griffith Williams QC , for the defence , said : ‘ I 'm suggesting you saw the knife a week earlier . ’ |
| 4 | No , well I , I mean you saw the point really . |
| 5 | Barrows were piled high with fruit and vegetables , and as they passed the fish stall they saw the fishmonger gutting an eel . |
| 6 | Gramley ( p. 20 ) seems to be on much the same track when he notes , concerning I saw the library to have burned down : What the speaker saw was not an occurrence , but physical evidence for a condition , a state ; for example , the speaker saw the site , the ruins . |
| 7 | I remember I remember I saw the shorts and you said they 're nice . |
| 8 | Ten days after they had left Ralarth Rorim they saw the silver sword-glitter of a river in the distance . |
| 9 | When the clerk returned he saw the letter , glanced at the door , in an attempt to see who had left it , then slotted it neatly into one of the pigeon holes behind him . |
| 10 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 11 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 12 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 13 | ‘ I have reason to believe she saw the sense of it , ’ said Viola . |
| 14 | As he collapsed he saw the Doctor being pummelled by the mob . |
| 15 | I felt so enthusiastic when I found this out and I began to read the stories , that I thought I saw the River of the Leprechauns , which is the crystal road to their kingdom ‘ Undersea . ’ |
| 16 | Then one morning on her way to work she was distracted by a commotion across the street and as she crossed she saw the owner of the hand being thrown out of a shop . |
| 17 | From your first message we gathered you saw the plane crash into the sea but could n't identify it . |
| 18 | As she reached the gate at the farther edge she could see right under the low bridge — and as she looked she saw the van turn the bend at the top of the short hill leading to the bridge , and increase speed down it . |
| 19 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 20 | Thereafter , much of Margarete 's unquenchable energies were devoted to telling in books and lectures what she knew of the story which Solzhenitsyn would describe definitively in his Gulag trilogy , and to trying to inoculate the young against the totalitarian virus wherever she thought she saw the threat of it . |
| 21 | As she waited for sleep , Dot thought she saw the face of the coat-owner gazing out of the dark with a complexion as pale and refined as tissue-paper . |
| 22 | They had recently watched an old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film on the television in which she thought she saw the source of his fantasy . |
| 23 | Melanie chose her side the night she thought she saw the hand ; she began to hate Uncle Philip . |
| 24 | No we saw we saw the people in the park when we walked down did n't we ? |
| 25 | They thought they saw the Lady Eleanor cloaked and hooded , but of course it was you . |
| 26 | Two witnesses thought they saw the aircraft 's nose rise slightly before they and many other witnesses saw the nose and left wing drop almost simultaneously . |
| 27 | What he did he saw he saw the method and saw well this is quite neat . |
| 28 | He thought he saw the girl again , but he could not be sure . |
| 29 | As she came out again Cormack thought he saw the man from the pier at the far side of the car park beside a small green car . |
| 30 | Jinkwa thought he saw the parasite raise its weapon in a puny gesture of defiance . |