Example sentences of "[pers pn] see a [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , I must admit I saw a pair of green suede baby shoes in Gap and I all but swooned : size 0 , cute as Goldie Hawn 's left ear , very nearly her right . |
| 2 | You 've written , ‘ I saw a pair of golden plover … |
| 3 | I saw a pair of shoes , if my grey shoes do n't go with this dress , I 've seen a pair of shoes that I like . |
| 4 | Well I saw a pair of trousers in there and they were about erm four pounds fifty and shirt which was one pound fifty ! |
| 5 | A reply might be that surely I am inferring that I see a sheep in the field from my knowledge of my own present sensory states . |
| 6 | Through her hair , which now lay in a tangle about her face , she saw a pair of long legs flex . |
| 7 | So when you see a pair of horses move round and so that you do get them separated as they are , or any animal , not just horses , any animals really , get them separated , er or any , any object really , it 's better to have a little bit of separation . |
| 8 | ‘ Most of us were standing by the control tower when the Fortress guns opened up to the Northward , and coming through the Flak we saw a series of black dots approaching directly towards us and as they closed we recognised them as yellow-nosed Me109s . |
| 9 | Behind them he saw a pair of horses , obviously having been warned off , turning to ride through a field , the colours of the riders ' helmets very bright against the pale , cold , February sky . |
| 10 | Drawing back the curtains , he saw a pair of men in blue overalls get out of a black police car , open the gates to the yard and give a mock salute as the driver and his passenger drove in . |
| 11 | There he saw a pair of motor torpedo boats tied up at one of the quays and decided to attack . |
| 12 | Instead he saw a pair of gloves , suspended in water and waving fleshless fingers at him . |