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Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] see a [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order .
2	Later in the afternoon I saw a meal for all 600 prisoners being cooked in one gigantic iron pot over a blazing fire .
3	In ten minutes I saw a summary of the whole butcher 's shop of war .
4	While on holiday in Portugal I saw a conifer that looked so magnificent I just had to photograph it .
5	Yes , it 's a funny old thing , actually I must tell you I feel an awful lot better since I 've passed my I suppose , last Friday I saw a Solicitor and the divorce is now actually sat up on it 's merry way rejoicing , and
6	I started running and when I reached this end of the scaffolding I saw a woman bending over something on the ground at the other end .
7	By comparing these two roles we see a change in the use of drawing files .
8	Among the press of cars he saw a taxicab painted like a page from a newspaper and another advertising a brand of beer .
9	For a flinty second I see a smile in his eyes , he obviously sees my frame of mind clearly .
10	He braked in the yard at the rear of the Lodge , and through the windscreen I saw a plume of smoke rising almost vertically beyond a pantiled outbuilding which I assumed must be Laura 's studio .
11	Last December I saw a plant called a Red Spotted Croton .
12	To her surprise , he turned the wheel towards the channel leading to the island , and as they motored slowly past one of the enormous posts she saw a name-plate on it .
13	You look out one window you see a chicken , look out another window you see pigs .
14	For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves .
15	The little girl you saw a moment ago was my niece .
16	At a turn in the corridor she saw a picture she remembered , a ship at sea , and under the waves a chariot racing from a previous painting .
17	In the next act we see a mountain village , where a feckless Kuomintang soldier is slouching around keeping an eye on the villagers .
18	The practical result of this is that when we study the individual child we see a succession of stages of development which from the point of view of the id are just as they should be and — because the id is the oldest , most fundamental and , from the point of view of the instinctual drives which originate it , the most important agency — are just what they should be .
19	Closer to home we see a rise in unemployment and crime figures , drug and alcohol abuse , in addition to higher prices in the shops .
20	Through one window he saw a bathroom , just like his own at home only a thousand times smaller .
21	Out of the bus window he saw a manor house , with barley-sugar-stick chimneys .
22	As the mountain loomed over Rincewind like the biggest fly-swatter in the universe he saw a cave mouth .
23	In that dream he saw a vision of loveliness : himself as Foreign Secretary .
24	She has short-cropped sandy hair , a fixed stare and when she folds her arms across her chest you see a criss-cross of tattooes on her wrists .
25	Then yesterday as I was doing my prison-exercise in the outer cellar I saw a nail .
26	During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia .
27	On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association .
28	— Only that between you and your husband I see a conspiracy to force me to forfeit Artai 's favour . ’
29	On all kinds of goods these days you see a manufacturer 's endorsement , ‘ Success only guaranteed if maker 's instructions adhered to . ’
30	Out of the corner of her eye she saw a man in a white coat floundering through the snow towards them , and in some intuitive way this increased her anxiety to be off .