Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | When my mother saw the room , her jaw dropped . |
2 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
3 | When her father saw the evidence of this sin he condemned her to death . |
4 | When they came into the light her mother saw the child 's face covered in blood and felt faint . |
5 | They were silent on the way back , walking to cool the horses ; if his father saw the state they were in he would be angry . |
6 | The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it . |
7 | His tenure saw the gallery grow from a provincial treasure house to a world-renowned showcase which challenged the Metropolitan as the country 's most prestigious venue . |
8 | The early years of his tenure saw the creation under Ida Ward [ q.v. ] of the first department of the languages and cultures of Africa in a British university , and the successful negotiation of the school 's removal from the City of London to Bloomsbury . |
9 | Both the coroner and his companion saw the chain fastened to the wall strain at its clasps . |
10 | when you first saw the house for the very , very first time and when your wife saw the house , what was the reaction ? |
11 | ‘ Your mother saw the announcement in the paper , ’ Barbara said to James . |