Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw her with black hair and I told her it was great , but she prefers to be blonde . |
| 2 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 3 | I saw him with that Jones girl , ’ answered his sister Dorothy . |
| 4 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 5 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 6 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 7 | well I 've never got any , I saw it in this shop |
| 8 | But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’ |
| 9 | As she turned she saw him with startling clarity , brightly instantaneous as a camera flash . |
| 10 | She saw him from fifty yards away , coming towards her ; then he spotted her and when they came together he was smiling and had a hand outstretched with which he took her elbow . |
| 11 | We saw him at Old Trafford |
| 12 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 13 | I am not sure that we would think the dancing , except by some of the principals , quite so wonderful by today 's standards , but we saw it with different eyes then , and John would have for comparison his memories of the Cape Town Ballet Club 's brave but handicapped attempt at the last act of the ballet , Aurora 's Wedding . |
| 14 | They saw them as fertile slopes on which to grow tea and coffee , as well as a cool and pleasant place to live when it became uncomfortably hot nearer sea level . |
| 15 | ‘ You remember how angry Alain became when he saw me with that book ? ’ she said . |
| 16 | Jim Pickering was one of the four : ‘ I was Red 2 in company with Red I and Green Section when I saw a Ju88 engaged by A.A. about 1,000 feet above us … he saw me at this height and turned in a circle onto my tail . |
| 17 | ‘ He telephoned to tell me about it … he was very angry when he saw you with that book and I could tell that he had said things he should not have said . ’ |