Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other sighting we 've had was a farm worker who thought he saw the car up towards Cumbermound about nine . |
| 2 | As she did he saw the ring on the third finger of her left hand ; the large diamond sparkled brightly . |
| 3 | The man who said he saw the ‘ green shoots ’ of recovery nearly two years ago claimed that under Tory rule the country had done better than many of its competitors . |
| 4 | ILY BRATINA , an economist and veteran of two world wars and the Russian Revolution who said he saw the charred body of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker , has died aged 96 . |
| 5 | He had learned that lesson as a child , when the others had laughed at him , and they sent him to see the school shrink . |
| 6 | The tears gathered more thickly in his eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under a dripping tree . |
| 7 | It pleased him to see the shock his words delivered , and before David could protest , he lied , ‘ You 've been a help to me since my old bones went crook , and I 'll see you get your dues when the time comes . |
| 8 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 9 | As he collapsed he saw the Doctor being pummelled by the mob . |
| 10 | He thought he saw the girl again , but he could not be sure . |
| 11 | What he did he saw he saw the method and saw well this is quite neat . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the window of his college bedroom was cherished in his memory because it enabled him to see the Antechapel of Trinity College , |
| 13 | He said he saw the boy being thrown through the air on impact , and the car crossed in front of the lorry , mounted the pavement and stopped on the foreshore . |