Example sentences of "[pron] saw the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I approached the pool I saw the pug marks of the tigress in the soft earth at the edge of the water . |
| 2 | I saw the student riots in Rome and it was an experience which greatly moved me . |
| 3 | He was really going to buy cigars at the shop next door , but I saw the sugar mice in the window and he could n't get me away until he came in and bought some . |
| 4 | I saw the infant children of one of the finest second-rowers in the Phil Lowe tradition , Crusher Cleal , playing with their father 's steaming boots . |
| 5 | One Christmas I was flying over the city of Boston in America it night and I saw the Christmas lights like networks of jewellery flickering through the freezing air ; and hardly ever in my life had I seen anything more dazzling or beautiful . |
| 6 | On the southern side she saw the mandarin silks of the beginnings of civilisation and the huge courage of the Long March ; and on the other , to the north , the eternal silence of the greatest desolation . |
| 7 | Soon after that we saw the tail lights of Danny 's truck in the distance and in no time at all we were right behind it . |
| 8 | Erm I think it it it started off , people would come in the dayroom , with their own supplementary benefit problem , and and clearly we had the sort of handbooks there and and they saw the probation officers on on duty as people who could help them to sort out that sort out that kind of problem . |
| 9 | Macmillan saw Polaris as an ideal strategic weapon acquired at a modest cost ; he saw the Nassau negotiations as a diplomatic and political triumph . |
| 10 | He saw the side effects of drugs on Tristan … loss of balance and bluured vision … and believes this should now be investigated . |