Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] saw the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barrows were piled high with fruit and vegetables , and as they passed the fish stall they saw the fishmonger gutting an eel . |
| 2 | Gramley ( p. 20 ) seems to be on much the same track when he notes , concerning I saw the library to have burned down : What the speaker saw was not an occurrence , but physical evidence for a condition , a state ; for example , the speaker saw the site , the ruins . |
| 3 | As she reached the gate at the farther edge she could see right under the low bridge — and as she looked she saw the van turn the bend at the top of the short hill leading to the bridge , and increase speed down it . |
| 4 | Jinkwa thought he saw the parasite raise its weapon in a puny gesture of defiance . |
| 5 | ( One must presume he saw the answer had to be one half of 100 x 101 . ) |
| 6 | I said I saw the boy come over the |
| 7 | As he ran she saw the man working the gun into the front of his overalls , and she saw him also , with his free hand , drag the woollen cap back down across his forehead . |
| 8 | One unidentified man told radio said he saw the plane flying northward very near the ground . |
| 9 | One of them Michael Huskison , who took photographs of the incident , said he saw the horse whipped at least 15 times . |