Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became aware of someone behind him and was reaching for his Browning when he saw the uniform . |
| 2 | Thirty-five years later I saw the film again in New York . |
| 3 | He hesitated for a moment when he saw the girl sitting on one of the large black leather sofas that were ranged along one wall . |
| 4 | Jaqueline Holliday , of Windsor Road , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , told Cleveland coroner Michael Sheffield she was waiting to turn right into Oxford Road when she saw the man . |
| 5 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 6 | Nodding his head , Aplin asked , ‘ Is that why you 'd been drinking , the night before you saw the robbery on Handley Plain ? ’ |
| 7 | It was a great thing the other day when I saw the combine harvester coming up the glen . |
| 8 | Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet . |
| 9 | Ruskin Spear when he saw The Death of Nelson remarked that Minton had painted the deck like an upright fence . |
| 10 | Er , hands up who saw the Horizon programme on Jeannie Okay , so so you do n't want to see it then do you really ? |
| 11 | He was layering a hedge in one of his top fields when he saw the party riding along the road towards the forest . |
| 12 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ Minton teased Tindle when he saw the painting in the studio at Hamilton Terrace , ‘ but it 's too late to change the floorboards now . ’ |