Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody brought a light and I saw the inside of the house . |
| 2 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 3 | I looked out of the window and I saw the postman delivering letters . |
| 4 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
| 5 | Occasionally , after refreshments — two would go in at two o'clock , two more at half past two , and so on — the only time you could have a natter with your colleague was when you left the station and you saw the sergeant going in for his refreshments . |
| 6 | It was a warm night and I saw the moon shining on the sea as I told my story . |
| 7 | One Christmas I was flying over the city of Boston in America it night and I saw the Christmas lights like networks of jewellery flickering through the freezing air ; and hardly ever in my life had I seen anything more dazzling or beautiful . |
| 8 | He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand . |
| 9 | And I think what that emphasises in the constitution is that the founding fathers , who devised the constitution , saw the congress as the central organ of American government and they saw the presidency as an appendage . |
| 10 | He held the paper in both hands and he saw the paper waver in front of his spectacles . |
| 11 | I tried to open the window- and I saw the glass . |
| 12 | Then , one morning in my twenty-third year on the island , I was out in my fields and I saw the smoke from a fire . |
| 13 | Angus Fleming , the aircraft 's designer , is well known for his company 's construction of glider trailers and he saw the Chevron as a way of selling more trailers . |
| 14 | They were standing in deep shadow but she saw the gleam of his teeth . |
| 15 | Briefly his gaze rested on Rachel and she saw the flicker of uncertainty in his eyes but there was no time for questions . |