Example sentences of "[pron] saw [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a red-haired man jump down from one of the branches as if he , too , was sickening of the scene and was preparing to leave . |
| 2 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |
| 3 | I saw an old man in the Park ; |
| 4 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 5 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue . |
| 6 | I saw the young man lived in Penn … . ’ 'Such dreadful things happen in families nowadays , ’ she said ( I liked ‘ nowadays ’ ) . |
| 7 | Alarmed , she thought she saw a black man lurking just behind her . |
| 8 | She saw a young man afraid and pretending not to be . |
| 9 | She saw a young man squatting on a rucksack , eating a bar of chocolate and looking at the board . |
| 10 | And as she stood , she saw a dozen men enter the room to stand in a semicircle around her . |
| 11 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |
| 12 | She saw the young man hesitate , then veer away . |
| 13 | ‘ The tavern wench says she saw the young man and woman who were later found murdered in the forest . |
| 14 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 15 | Once more she saw the attractive man she had noticed in the High Street , and her colour rose as she recalled how she had hoped to meet him some day . |
| 16 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 17 | She saw an old man digging in one of the vegetable gardens , but he looked cross and unfriendly , so she walked on . |
| 18 | You should give them a ring and tell them if you saw a strange man . |
| 19 | ‘ If you saw a blind man coming along , would n't you feel sorry for him and want to help him ? ’ |
| 20 | I suppose you saw the old man about it . ’ |
| 21 | In particular they want to speak to anyone who saw a black man , aged about 24 , who was at the Social Services office in Calthorpe Street and was also seen later at Banbury and Oxford train stations . |
| 22 | The next day , walking hand in hand through the festive market , we saw a sandwich-board man pushing through the crowds . |
| 23 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |
| 24 | Only when they saw the hooded men with blood-covered knives approaching their cars did they realise what lay in store for them . |
| 25 | Mr Dovaston said witnesses had told police they saw the two men shout to Magee to catch up with them . |
| 26 | They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . |
| 27 | that is , until they saw the old man 's face , |
| 28 | In his mind 's eye he saw a faceless man marching over the child 's body . |
| 29 | But in the room he saw a young man who had once been his friend . |
| 30 | He saw a solid man , good shoulders on him and a squat neck and a good head of dark hair . |