Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [noun sg] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that we would go to Tahiti , and I saw the excitement grow in Ellen as she realised that these plans were so close to coming true . |
| 2 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 3 | The next February he awakened his bride from her melancholy sleep and carried her over to the window , where , on looking out , she saw the landscape covered in white . |
| 4 | ‘ Is that an order or a question ? ’ she asked , the mischievous light in her eyes fading as she saw the anxiety mirrored in his . |
| 5 | ‘ We saw the job advertised in January and applied right away , ’ says Derry . |
| 6 | When he rounded the final bend , he saw the helicopter hovering in the middle of the road , no more than five feet off the ground and some twenty metres from the gates . |
| 7 | He saw the hole appear in the plaster almost right above him . |
| 8 | Then he saw the gravel embedded in the tar and watched a spider running over the surface . |
| 9 | He held the paper in both hands and he saw the paper waver in front of his spectacles . |