Example sentences of "[pron] saw [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
| 2 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 3 | Elinor said , ‘ I saw Sam for a few minutes , darling . |
| 4 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 5 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her . |
| 7 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 8 | I saw Michael on a regular basis in the children 's home to which he returned . |
| 9 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 10 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 11 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 12 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 13 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 14 | Britain , though , was still prepared to offer little , for she saw Egypt as a vital strategic position in the post-war world , and agitation broke out once more , with Zaghlul again exiled . |
| 15 | Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 . |
| 16 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
| 17 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 18 | As the Vikings rowed their warships round the north of Scotland , past Cape Wrath , their ‘ turning point ’ , down the ragged west coast of their ‘ South Land ’ , they saw Suilven as a single , dramatic pillar ; and they named it Sul Val , the pillar mountain . |
| 19 | He was on the pavement , waiting , when he saw Volkov on the opposite side of the road . |
| 20 | He saw God as a glorified combination of boat and helicopter , not unlike Jules Verne 's The Terror . |