Example sentences of "[pron] saw [prep] [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was going to , but I saw in the newspaper the next morning that he had died . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 3 | When Benny opened them she saw on the bed a thick navy skirt , a Fair Isle jumper in navy and red . |
| 4 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 5 | The eradication of Judaism in the Auvergne attracted the interest not only of Gregory , but also of Venantius Fortunatus , who saw in the event the emergence of a unified Christian community . |
| 6 | That 's like the one we saw on the telly a bat . |
| 7 | The description fits the man we saw outside the opera the other night . |
| 8 | We saw in the cemetery a pile of about 60–70 corpses , two days accumulation ( not reckoning the private burials ) , waiting to be tumbled into a pit , and also a pit full of other corpses . |
| 9 | and while he was talking to the woman he saw in the hall an elderly woman , and he said to the woman at the door , is that your mother , she said oh yes she 's with me now , she used to live at Woodbridge . |
| 10 | On returning a day or two later to pay for them , he saw in the yard a Scania tractor which had been included but not sold at the auction which he had attended . |