Example sentences of "[pron] saw a [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 | Alarmed , she thought she saw a black man lurking just behind her . |
| 4 | She saw a young man afraid and pretending not to be . |
| 5 | She saw a young man squatting on a rucksack , eating a bar of chocolate and looking at the board . |
| 6 | And as she stood , she saw a dozen men enter the room to stand in a semicircle around her . |
| 7 | You should give them a ring and tell them if you saw a strange man . |
| 8 | ‘ If you saw a blind man coming along , would n't you feel sorry for him and want to help him ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The next day , walking hand in hand through the festive market , we saw a sandwich-board man pushing through the crowds . |
| 11 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |
| 12 | In his mind 's eye he saw a faceless man marching over the child 's body . |
| 13 | But in the room he saw a young man who had once been his friend . |
| 14 | He saw a solid man , good shoulders on him and a squat neck and a good head of dark hair . |
| 15 | Walking into the dining room he saw a huge man about seven or eight feet tall standing behind the desk at the other end of the room . |