Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] 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 | Without thinking she snapped off a shot towards him , and through the blur of sweat in her eyes saw the figure spin , and lurch . |
| 4 | George stopped and Libby crouched beside him , waiting until her eyes saw the figure by the tree . |
| 5 | When her father saw the evidence of this sin he condemned her to death . |
| 6 | Diana had said she would look in to say hello to give them a morale boost , but when one of her staff saw the route she had to take to get there they said she could not possibly go . |
| 7 | When they came into the light her mother saw the child 's face covered in blood and felt faint . |
| 8 | But there are signs that not all his contemporaries saw the relationship in such simple terms . |
| 9 | Charles Kingsley and his associates saw the question , Cole records , as a moral issue ; and valued Consumers , Co-operation only because it helped to provide retail outlets for producers ' co-operatives . |
| 10 | A fierce blizzard raged for days , but through it Tallis saw the mother slip away to the south , carrying weapons and a bag . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The change in attitude was perhaps most clearly evident in Studies of Boy Life in Our Cities , where Urwick and his collaborators saw the boy neither ‘ as an amusing playmate nor as a vagrant from the ecclesiastical fold , but as the product of a still imperfect educational system and the embryo of the citizen who would decide the destiny of a still inchoate democracy ’ . |
| 16 | Both the coroner and his companion saw the chain fastened to the wall strain at its clasps . |
| 17 | when you first saw the house for the very , very first time and when your wife saw the house , what was the reaction ? |
| 18 | ‘ Your mother saw the announcement in the paper , ’ Barbara said to James . |