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Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I saw the knife flash , a cold gleam as the man swung his arm back to strike at Ward 's belly .
2	It was a great thing the other day when I saw the combine harvester coming up the glen .
3	But not before I saw the speedometer register over 100 mph and decided to fasten my seat belt .
4	I saw the shipping company 's advertisement and decided to apply .
5	I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street .
6	In my mirror I saw the ford taxi moving up on me fast .
7	Almost one might , says the other Robert , and I saw the seed fall on fertile ground , and there he 's tended it ever since .
8	‘ I saw the stage version .
9	And I saw the science club one about the bones .
10	I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me !
11	I saw the creature jump at Sir Henry and throw him to the ground .
12	I saw the glass case over the mantle , filled .
13	I had on the Ring of Luned that brings invisibility , and I saw the Glass Castle and the chains hanging in the Great Tower .
14	I saw the Wing Commander who was to do the reconnoitre and give the signal for the fusing of the lights talking anxiously to Ryan .
15	I saw the producer price figures issued this morning , and they are good news .
16	Then , unbelievably , I saw the line move up the river .
17	I 'll see you , phone you one day in the week , I saw the post lady coming up the drive and I said to Henry who 's that , he threw himself against the top window so there was indeed someone coming up the drive , tore into the dinning room , picked up his tennis ball , raced back to the window and wow , wow , wow , with his ball in his mouth , and I said Henry you 're really going to frightened off intruders with a ball in your mouth , I said .
18	I was half way up the road when I saw the fire engine come .
19	This bizarre characteristic did not disappear with the end of the war , for when I visited her home during a sugar shortage in the 1970s , I saw the dining-room mantelpiece piled high with two-pound bags — enough , surely , to satisfy the most desperate sweet-tooth for months , or even years , to come .
20	In the morning I saw the flute player — a small green frog , like an emerald brooch to adorn a tree .
21	I saw the tiger stagger .
22	Keynes himself saw the liquidity trap as merely a special case : the case where the economy is in deep recession .
23	The first finalist has emerged in the Haslemere Combination League , Admirals ‘ B ’ defeated Grange ‘ B ’ by a margin of 13 points ( plus handicap ) in a match which saw the home team 's men that little bit stronger than the visitors .
24	By contrast , the energetic and efficient Clinton campaign ended with a flourish which saw the candidate visit eight states ( seven of which he later won ) in the final 29 hours before polling .
25	Hull 's powerful prop looks likely to be cited to the Rugby League for a tackle on Wires second-row forward Bob Jackson , which saw the Aussie skipper carried off with a nasty eye injury .
26	MacLeod has toughened up the side during a close season which saw the club turn full-time following a flirtation with relegation last year .
27	She saw the child white in the face , as white as paper , trembling all over , the eyes glazed , staring straight ahead and seeing nothing .
28	She held the tip of it just inside her pouting snatch , and only sank down on to it when she saw the door opening .
29	Elinor 's only defence system was to say , in a tone fractionally the right side of panic — ‘ I 'm in here ! ’ — if ever she saw the door move .
30	But when she saw the church clock she realised she was too early for the bus — nearly three-quarters of an hour too early .