Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | For a flinty second I see a smile in his eyes , he obviously sees my frame of mind clearly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You look out one window you see a chicken , look out another window you see pigs . |
| 7 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 8 | The little girl you saw a moment ago was my niece . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the next act we see a mountain village , where a feckless Kuomintang soldier is slouching around keeping an eye on the villagers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Closer to home we see a rise in unemployment and crime figures , drug and alcohol abuse , in addition to higher prices in the shops . |
| 13 | Through one window he saw a bathroom , just like his own at home only a thousand times smaller . |
| 14 | Out of the bus window he saw a manor house , with barley-sugar-stick chimneys . |
| 15 | As the mountain loomed over Rincewind like the biggest fly-swatter in the universe he saw a cave mouth . |
| 16 | In that dream he saw a vision of loveliness : himself as Foreign Secretary . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then yesterday as I was doing my prison-exercise in the outer cellar I saw a nail . |
| 19 | — Only that between you and your husband I see a conspiracy to force me to forfeit Artai 's favour . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 22 | Within the first meaning we see a conception of law founded on general rules ; an idea that Dicey had signalled earlier with his references to ‘ rigid legality ’ . |
| 23 | Every totalitarian state has attacked the family because in that small , loving group they see a threat to the power of the State . |
| 24 | Out of the corner of his eye he saw a face appear in the corridor . |
| 25 | In his mind 's eye he sees a girl who has brains ( although he knows that some very dim actresses can read with all the appearance of intelligence , and the converse ) who has a slight resistance to the Hollywoodification of Claudia 's life . |
| 26 | On the way back over the lines west we saw a lot of traffic with trains going to Oxford , coal to Didcot power station , 125 's to the West Country and three class 37 's up and down with nowhere to go . |
| 27 | ‘ At first I thought art was simply a matter of reproducing what I saw ; but one day I saw a reproduction of Piero della Francesca 's Pietà , and I suddenly realised that there was a huge spiritual element in painting . |
| 28 | One day I saw a man pulling a small cart . |
| 29 | One night I saw a film about Jesus Christ . |
| 30 | Mrs Swales told the court she saw a lot of shouting and arguing , but she did not intervene or try to get involved . |