Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The VW , driven by Wing , overtook and he saw the defendant 's brother , a passenger in the car , gesticulating at him . |
| 2 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 3 | The mischief in my veins cooled as I saw the fear in his eyes . |
| 4 | She stopped as she saw the look of annoyance on his face . |
| 5 | They would start to jeer at the company , but stopped when they saw the Hearthware sashes and the Myrcan staves and whispered amongst themselves . |
| 6 | He stopped when he saw the car and made as if to turn back . |
| 7 | ‘ My heart sank when I saw the hill . ’ |
| 8 | I almost had a Vulcan mind melt when I saw the colour graphics on this version of Star Trek . |
| 9 | I almost had a Vulcan mind melt when I saw the colour graphics on this version of Star Trek . |
| 10 | Tomorrow they 'll try and put up a sign to ask anyone who was passing if they saw the accident , yeah ? |
| 11 | From outside it looked like a faded bell but within was a brilliant and sumptuous chamber of fiery gold adorned with most exquisite tapestry , and it moved me as much as I was moved when I saw the dome of the Blue Mosque at Isfahan , the most beautiful building I have ever seen . |
| 12 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
| 13 | Increasingly , the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime . |
| 14 | Lieutenant Simon Doggett waited at the crossroads and frowned when he saw the blood on Sharpe 's arm . |
| 15 | Write the Captain 's log for the period that starts when they first saw the strange " whale " and ends when he saw the Monongahela for the last time . |
| 16 | ‘ If you 're wakeful I thought you might like company in the shape of Emma — ’ He stopped , his eyes narrowing as he saw the expression on her face . |
| 17 | It can be proved by witnesses stating that they saw the defendant ‘ drive round the roundabout and wander into the side of another car ’ or ‘ brake rather late and run into the car in front ’ or by the defendant stating that ‘ I misjudged the gap or distance ’ or ‘ I did n't see the other car , motorbike , cycle or pedestrian , etc . ’ |
| 18 | In the majority of cases the conveyance will be a motor car and the ‘ taking ’ is proved by a witness stating that he saw the defendant take the car , or by an admission to that effect by the defendant . |
| 19 | It was not until I was at a conference at which Jean Darnall was speaking that I saw the need to ask others to pray for me . |
| 20 | These are often documents that were never included in the original audit — perhaps never existed until someone saw the potential of the new system and decided to exploit it . |
| 21 | His eyes narrowed as he saw the outline of a helicopter by the side of the mansion . |
| 22 | Robyn held it out at arm 's length , glanced at it and then cursed as she saw the blood that dripped from her fingers on to the black plastic . |
| 23 | ‘ Good God , ’ she breathed as she saw the state of him . |
| 24 | A second lorry driver Peter Walling later saw a man naked from the waist up scramble up the river bank but disappear when he saw the lorry . |
| 25 | Hurriedly she licked them from her fingers , then looked up and felt her pulse jerk when she saw the way he was looking at her mouth . |
| 26 | There were more trucks around it , and also several humans that started to run when they saw the shadow of the Ship . |
| 27 | He felt a sticky wetness on his left leg , glanced down and swore as he saw the bloodstain spreading downwards from around the bullet hole in the denim . |
| 28 | I panicked when I saw the blood . |
| 29 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 30 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |