Example sentences of "[pron] saw [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
| 2 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 3 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 4 | I almost dropped the flowers when I saw Lisabeth on the phone in the hallway as I kicked the door shut . |
| 5 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 6 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw Melody through the window . |
| 8 | Behind me his body began to beat against the stern of the boat , and as I turned toward him I saw Rachel from the corner of my eye begin to clamber up from her seat and I called out to her to stay sitting and not to stand but she laughed lightly and tossed back her head and I felt Casey behind me clambering into the boat . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her . |
| 10 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 11 | I think the first time I saw Day At The Beach they had it written on the wrong strings . |
| 12 | In a police statement Conley , of Park End , said : ‘ I saw Wayne by the fence and I walked over to him . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw Gabriel on the cover of a magazine , and David Mellor was on the cover of something else and I thought , who 's looking funkier ? |
| 14 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 15 | Anyway , I saw Tony from the ‘ Guardian ’ , at the exhibition . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw Travis over the weekend , ’ Leith plunged . |
| 17 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 18 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 19 | And that day , when she saw Gilbert by the river , she stopped him and held out her hand . |
| 20 | When she reached the top of the stairs and turned to descend she saw Simon on the hall phone and hesitated , wondering . |
| 21 | She even imagined she saw Marc in the audience one night , his face just a pale blur beyond the footlights with all the others , but what would the jet-setting Marc Vila be doing in Yorkshire ? |
| 22 | She stopped short when she saw Shelley on the bed and Miguel standing beside her , his fingers playing gently with her hair . |
| 23 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 24 | When she saw Mike in the pit — Mike who had helped her dam the slurry lagoon four years before — attaching a cluster to one of a line of cows , when she slapped the flank of that cow , and shut her eyes to inhale the air loaded with the smell of blood-warm milk , udderwash and cow breath , she was utterly content in the conviction of her seamless permanence . |
| 25 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 26 | When she saw Hannah in the sequence where she played the tiny organ at Low Birk Hatt , she tried to arrange for her to come to Lartington to try the unique Aeolian pipe organ in the chapel . |
| 27 | Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 . |
| 28 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
| 29 | We saw God in the children 's faces and the way in which the mums learned to trust us with their children . |
| 30 | Statements by the Iranian government made it clear that it saw ECO as the basis for a future Islamic common market which might ultimately embrace some 300 million people — a quarter of all Muslims — and rival the European Communities in importance . |