Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] saw the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Karen broke the news of our marriage so crudely at Thomas 's party , and I saw the look on your face , I understood for the first time the force of that old cliché about wishing the floor would open up and swallow one . |
| 2 | Her topcoat was open , and I saw the belt of knives — with one missing — strung from shoulder to waist . |
| 3 | Somebody brought a light and I saw the inside of the house . |
| 4 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
| 5 | Then , one morning in my twenty-third year on the island , I was out in my fields and I saw the smoke from a fire . |
| 6 | I thought it was a brown leaf , but it moved again , and I saw the object of my greatest dread , a toad . |
| 7 | Briefly his gaze rested on Rachel and she saw the flicker of uncertainty in his eyes but there was no time for questions . |
| 8 | She saw her aloneness , now loneliness , and she saw the vista of age , which she had never contemplated before . |
| 9 | When he came to the part about the clip he glanced up , and she saw the flare of excitement in his silvery-green eyes before they dropped once again to the page . |
| 10 | He smiled , and she saw the gleam of perfect white teeth . |
| 11 | She contrasted her experience of school physics with university physics , and she saw the distinction as a quantitative/qualitative one . |
| 12 | A mask seemed to fall away from his face , and she saw the torment in his eyes . |
| 13 | He turned , and she saw the approval in his face . |
| 14 | A lady traveller on the Exeter express told John Ruskin that she was in the carriage from which Turner put his head out in a rainstorm to record the scene mentally , and she saw the picture at the Royal Academy the next year , in 1844 . |
| 15 | Near the entrance of the open-plan dining area was a large bird-table , and we saw the reason for that when meal-time came . |
| 16 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 17 | And I think what that emphasises in the constitution is that the founding fathers , who devised the constitution , saw the congress as the central organ of American government and they saw the presidency as an appendage . |
| 18 | And he saw the stubbornness under her brows . |
| 19 | Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain . |
| 20 | And he saw the work of an old favourite of his from the London days , J Maris , who had some beautiful things on show . |
| 21 | ‘ We are pretty certain Watson just mugged because they were there and he saw the chance of easy pickings without much danger of violence being offered back to him , ’ said a policeman . |
| 22 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 23 | From the darkness where the thicker growth of box began , a shadowy figure slipped out to join him , and he saw the oval of a girl 's face as a paler gleam above her dark coat . |
| 24 | Angus Fleming , the aircraft 's designer , is well known for his company 's construction of glider trailers and he saw the Chevron as a way of selling more trailers . |
| 25 | ‘ It is kind in you to make such a pretence , but I saw the compassion in your face , and I am grateful for it . |
| 26 | I had heard my mother 's friends sometimes whispering ruefully of The Change , but I saw the loss of innocence as the greatest and the worst change . |
| 27 | But I saw the sheen of her lipstick as she drowned in stinking slurry . |
| 28 | " But you saw the strain on his features ? " |
| 29 | His face above hers was also shadow , but she saw the savagery of it , to match her own . |
| 30 | Kate had been reluctant to agree , but she saw the sense of it . |