Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When she arrived at the theatre that night she saw a note pinned up at the stage door stating that it had come to the management 's notice that a Girl had been flying , which was forbidden ! |
| 32 | The following day they saw a column of vehicles approaching from the wrong direction to that from which Timpson should have appeared . |
| 33 | He would not have to wait long — in the distance he saw a flight of P-51s engaged in combat simulation , just the scenario for some ‘ rat-racing ’ . |
| 34 | Sometime during the next day he saw a man in a harness being lowered by cable towards Corti ; heard a shout : ‘ I have him ! ’ |
| 35 | All his efforts had failed when one day he saw a copy in his local library in a corner of discarded books . |
| 36 | That very night he saw a lawyer , the priest , the chairman of the poor law guardians , and the nurse , putting in hand all the arrangement necessary to secure Mary 's immediate future . |
| 37 | Then one morning I saw a figure coming towards me faster than any man could go . |
| 38 | One morning I saw a tray of lettuces had been disturbed . |
| 39 | Only last week we saw a collision in the Channel at a real cost , eight seamen 's lives . |
| 40 | Now I 'd like to emphasize this as because within York area it saw a difference between the census counts to the actual base population of a growth of five point seven two percent . |
| 41 | One morning he saw a clock lying under a bush . |
| 42 | The municipal railings had been taken away for the war effort and through the gaps in the makeshift fence of galvanised iron he saw a tramp in an army greatcoat sitting on a green bench . |
| 43 | As I was closing the door I saw a car turn into the end of the street , very slowly and very quietly , driving on sidelights only . |
| 44 | Through a half-open door she saw a glimmer of white and stiffened , nauseated , as she saw Melanie over Penry 's shoulder , her face held up to his in impassioned invitation . |
| 45 | At the mortuary door she saw a police sergeant talking to Dennis , the duty nurse . |
| 46 | And there on the road we saw a number of German lorries approaching , loaded with soldiers wearing steel helmets . |
| 47 | Then to David Stirling 's fury they saw a convoy of light armoured vehicles moving across their line of advance . |
| 48 | He lifted one knee from the ground and turned his head slowly and looked up the slight incline to the path , and in his sun-blinded vision he saw a shape . |
| 49 | Naylor entered the building and was still looking for me when there on the mat right outside your door he saw a set of keys which he instantly recognised as mine from the Alsace wine fob on the key-ring . ’ |
| 50 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 51 | Staring into the mirror he saw a man gazing back at him ‘ with wrinkles on my forehead and lines on my face as if I were forty . ’ |
| 52 | In his shaving mirror he saw a face burned a deep brown by two weeks of fierce tropical sunshine . |
| 53 | As he turned the door handle to enter the building he saw a storm-trooper come out of one of the side rooms . |
| 54 | Around the corner of the building he saw a figure on a bike speeding away . |
| 55 | We had gone about two miles in this order , when on turning a corner I saw a man sitting on the road , herding buffaloes . |
| 56 | Turning the next corner she saw a hole in the roof , where the sunlight was streaming in . |
| 57 | As soon as you step into the box you see a curtain of obstinate incomprehension clanging down over their minds . |
| 58 | The sitters are evidently at their ease , and in the background we see a representation of the Dutch House at Kew , a favourite place just a few miles from London where they could escape from the formalities of public life . |
| 59 | By the path we saw a number of white-tailed tropic birds . |
| 60 | ‘ During the first walk we saw a weka , but the second time was much more exciting because we sat on a log and waited for a kiwi to return to its nest . ’ |