Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 2 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 4 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 5 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 6 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 8 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 9 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 10 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 11 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 12 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 13 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 14 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 15 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |
| 18 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 19 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 20 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 21 | She saw nothing of the pale green clusters of new leaves adorning the elm trees , nor did she see the arum lilies glowing with white purity beneath them . |
| 22 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 23 | Turning to the mirror , she saw herself in the long white silk dress , clinging to her slender body , curving off the shoulders , accentuating her fine collarbones , tight at the waist then flaring out with clouds of taffeta below that made it seem as if she floated rather than walked . |
| 24 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 25 | You saw him in the early thirties ? |
| 26 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 27 | It 's worth also mentioning , since you saw it in the practical class , that staphylococci in general produce this enzyme catalase all of these er lo thi this is the enzyme which breaks down hydrogen peroxide and detoxifies it . |
| 28 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 29 | At the inquest into his death and those he killed the sergeant said he saw nothing in the dead officer to make him question his state of mind . |
| 30 | For several minutes he saw nothing in the shimmering haze of the plain . |