Example sentences of "[vb past] he see [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On some of the screens , Francis thought he saw other figures moving in the high shadows . |
| 2 | He spoke a little stiffly , and again Jean-Paul thought he saw that flash of resentment in the eyes , there and then gone . |
| 3 | Nor did he see much hope in the extension of parliamentary redress : ‘ any man who will look plain facts in the face will see in a moment that ministerial liability to the censure not in fact by Parliament , nor even by the House of Commons , but by the party majority who keep the Government in office , is a very feeble guarantee indeed against action which evades the authority of the law courts . ’ |
| 4 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 5 | As he ran he saw two dots appear on the lip of the entrance . |
| 6 | He heard Mandru tell all the other Ixmaritians that never had he seen such eloquence of posture , such moving pathos . |
| 7 | ‘ The poor little mite ! ’ he exclaimed , as he might had he seen another man 's child being mistreated in the street . |
| 8 | Oh Mark said he saw those people going from there this morning . |