Example sentences of "[pron] saw him [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ages later I saw him listening to the band and clutching his fistful of Mickeys . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From the back window she saw him swaggering along the dock , a hand on his hip , throwing keys in the air with insouciant authority . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the morning she saw him standing in the body of the church , dark as a gypsy in his morning suit . |
| 7 | ‘ No breakfast ? ’ she called when she saw him striding up the stairs two at a time . |
| 8 | But if you saw him running for the bus , he would go blue in the face and collapse on to the bus . |
| 9 | 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 . |