Example sentences of "[pron] saw he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 2 | Ages later I saw him listening to the band and clutching his fistful of Mickeys . |
| 3 | When Sir Oswald appeared on the steps , the crowd surged round him and I saw him struck from the right . |
| 4 | I saw him go into the room where the telephone is . ’ |
| 5 | I saw him go through the gate into the woods … ’ |
| 6 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw him play in the Schools Cup . ’ |
| 8 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |
| 9 | I saw him like on the right , on the path and I goes I goes what you do I goes gon na be sick . |
| 10 | I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw him come up the path , ’ said an angry voice . |
| 12 | From the back window she saw him swaggering along the dock , a hand on his hip , throwing keys in the air with insouciant authority . |
| 13 | She saw him go to the bar and order a tray of Cokes and crisps for the children , and by the time he came back to her table carrying two mugs of coffee she had composed herself a little . |
| 14 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 15 | Watching from the window , Hilary grinned as she saw him hurry towards the driver , and only when he 'd climbed into the car did she move . |
| 16 | But Viola had reassumed all her wonted , iron-clad voluptuousness , and only her reddened eyes — had they , Greg wondered , been rubbed since she saw him coming up the path ? — suggested that she might have gone through a frightening or saddening time . |
| 17 | On the morning she saw him standing in the body of the church , dark as a gypsy in his morning suit . |
| 18 | ‘ No breakfast ? ’ she called when she saw him striding up the stairs two at a time . |
| 19 | He watched her climb on to the chair , and she saw him grin at the sight of her sore rump , which she thought must burn as brightly as any beacon . |
| 20 | But if you saw him running for the bus , he would go blue in the face and collapse on to the bus . |
| 21 | Billy was not a great goalscorer , but everyone who saw him play for the Palace is agreed that he helped to make hundreds of them for us . |
| 22 | I myself saw him parading through the stunned streets , with courtiers , in his carriage , pushed by a white horse like a paper bag full of water and bones . |