Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I approached the pool I saw the pug marks of the tigress in the soft earth at the edge of the water . |
| 2 | When I examined Southgate 's horse I saw the spur marks . |
| 3 | I saw the Rabbit Grounds again , and the flaming bodies as they jumped and sped . |
| 4 | I saw the student riots in Rome and it was an experience which greatly moved me . |
| 5 | He was really going to buy cigars at the shop next door , but I saw the sugar mice in the window and he could n't get me away until he came in and bought some . |
| 6 | I saw the infant children of one of the finest second-rowers in the Phil Lowe tradition , Crusher Cleal , playing with their father 's steaming boots . |
| 7 | One Christmas I was flying over the city of Boston in America it night and I saw the Christmas lights like networks of jewellery flickering through the freezing air ; and hardly ever in my life had I seen anything more dazzling or beautiful . |
| 8 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 9 | On the southern side she saw the mandarin silks of the beginnings of civilisation and the huge courage of the Long March ; and on the other , to the north , the eternal silence of the greatest desolation . |
| 10 | Glancing up at the sky , she saw the storm clouds gathering on the horizon . |
| 11 | As she raced through the lounge to join Tom and Faye in the car , she saw the party guests , who had sensed that something was amiss but had not yet been told the details , milling and exclaiming in the background , like flocks of frightened birds . |
| 12 | From the corner of her eye she saw the security guards wrestle him to the ground . |
| 13 | Celebrities among the 2,000 fans who saw the Maple Leafs win a 6–5 victory included actresses Susan George , Fiona Fullerton , Patricia Hodge and Cherie Lunghi , and society hostess Ivana Trump . |
| 14 | Soon after that we saw the tail lights of Danny 's truck in the distance and in no time at all we were right behind it . |
| 15 | They took ship as soon as they saw the way things were going in 1934 . |
| 16 | Erm I think it it it started off , people would come in the dayroom , with their own supplementary benefit problem , and and clearly we had the sort of handbooks there and and they saw the probation officers on on duty as people who could help them to sort out that sort out that kind of problem . |
| 17 | They would start to jeer at the company , but stopped when they saw the Hearthware sashes and the Myrcan staves and whispered amongst themselves . |
| 18 | Macmillan saw Polaris as an ideal strategic weapon acquired at a modest cost ; he saw the Nassau negotiations as a diplomatic and political triumph . |
| 19 | When he saw the cap badges he felt himself to be on home ground . |
| 20 | Then he saw the mullion windows were open . |
| 21 | He saw the emergency vehicles rushing towards him , their lights beaconing in the morning light . |
| 22 | He saw the Challenge materials as particularly useful for the individual resource-based projects which first-year children were encouraged to develop over several weeks in the summer term : Up to half term they really are very much guided as to the work they do , but as we get to know them better , and as teachers become more confident about letting them maybe work on longer pieces … and go out and get resources themselves , they can go towards more pupil-centred learning . |
| 23 | He saw the side effects of drugs on Tristan … loss of balance and bluured vision … and believes this should now be investigated . |