Example sentences of "and saw [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event Clinton won the New York contest comfortably , and saw Brown beaten into third place by Paul Tsongas who had already withdrawn from the contest . |
| 2 | So he talked to you about it , McLeish thought , and saw Catherine register the same point . |
| 3 | Mildred looked up and saw Maud swooping over the gates , waving her hat in the air . |
| 4 | Joiners of yesteryear had their names stamped on their wooden planes and saw handles . |
| 5 | For Shakhnazarov , socialism would continue as long as mankind pursued a better world ; but he rejected the idea of ‘ stages ’ of human history and the primacy of economic factors and saw communism itself as a ‘ hypothesis ’ or even a ‘ dream ’ . |
| 6 | Ever since Tug opened his eyes and saw Doyle in front of the door , things had been different from the other mornings . |
| 7 | He looked up and saw Jed standing in the doorway . |
| 8 | After tea I went out and saw Ryan . |
| 9 | Paula glanced up and saw cobwebs in the corners , a whole network . |
| 10 | ‘ I heard screaming and saw Kelly being dragged along the road by a man , ’ said neighbour Tracey Curd . |
| 11 | Craig looked into his mother 's white face and saw lines of pain etched around her mouth . |
| 12 | I rolled up my sleeves , those tartan sleeves , still damp , closed my forearms together and saw arms which , the same as the rest of me , had received no care . |
| 13 | I went to the Maly Opera Theatre that night and saw Verdi 's Otello , and with the voices still occupying my mind I decided to take a subway down the Nevsky and have a drink at the Astoria . |
| 14 | Kepler Wessels , a veteran of 24 Tests for Australia , led a team of debutantes into the field after winning the toss , and saw West Indies off to a flyer with Haynes and Phil Simmons , still not convincing in the longer fame , punching holes in the off side whenever Donald and Pringle overpitched. business as usual , we thought — but we were wrong . |
| 15 | ON A SLOW pitch with little bounce , South Africa once again were unable to set the home side a testing target , and saw West Indies complete a clean sweep of the one-day international series with seven wickets and seven overs to spare . |
| 16 | When I watched the TV news and saw Auque and Normandin waving to the crowd on their release , something snapped . |
| 17 | Went outside this morning and saw Noel pissing |
| 18 | She ran past the Library to the corner of Unter den Linden and saw Karl , notable in his elegant overcoat , sauntering down the street . |
| 19 | Alexandra looked over and saw Felicity listening with attention . |
| 20 | Lee watched the policeman 's back as he walked away from her and saw Rokeya , her crimson lipstick smeared down over her chin , her navy robe ruffled and gold-trimmed , her eyes watering involuntarily . |
| 21 | The dark eyes looked up and saw Jenna 's interest . |
| 22 | The officer became light headed and saw spots in front of his eyes . |
| 23 | Bewildered , Wilson turned and saw Mrs Browning had coloured and seemed embarrassed . |
| 24 | Peg looked up , and saw Mrs Sugar . |
| 25 | Meredith tossed her glorious hair and saw Lucenzo 's eyes kindle . |
| 26 | Waller glanced out of the window at home and saw youths tampering with a neighbour 's car . |
| 27 | He narrowed his eyes and saw Hope the Merchant Prince , the aristocrat at large on the Rialtos of the world , feared , admired , dipping silkenly between caskets of treasure , tranches of land , ships , silver mines , paintings , furniture , the collector , the connoisseur , and sending all back to the lonely Scottish estate which burgeoned with those foreign infusions of antique wealth , material goods … |
| 28 | Seb ducked inside the tent and saw Jacob Brailey leaning back against a heavy , wooden chest , his arm about a well-rounded girl . |
| 29 | Posidonius was active between about 100 and 50 B.C. : in 86 he was an ambassador to Rome and saw Marius . |
| 30 | Saturday 's preliminary play took place from 9am–7pm at three venues and saw teams competing from Aberdeen and Fort William in the north to Selkirk in the south . |