Example sentences of "[pron] saw [noun prp] [prep] the [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 I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital .
4 He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time .
5 I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her .
6 When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’
7 I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre .
12 Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 .
13 Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’
14 He was on the pavement , waiting , when he saw Volkov on the opposite side of the road .
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