Example sentences of "and [pron] see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although it is almost certain death to look on them , Fergus , I stole out of the Palace that night , and I saw the green and blue smoke that indicates their presence , and I saw , just for a moment , the Elven King , Aillen mac Midha , seated cross-legged on the ground . |
| 2 | ‘ I went to the old house where she lived and I saw the paintings . |
| 3 | ‘ I looked everywhere and could n't find anyone and we saw the trucks come here and I saw the lights on and I thought the humans were still here and I came in and I heard your voices and you 've got to come because it 's Dorcas ! ’ |
| 4 | Pursuant to the warrant , an intercept was placed on Mr. Cox 's telephone in or about August 1983 and I saw the products of the intercept in the form of transcripts of recorded telephone conversations . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Then the lights went up and I saw the chucker-out standing over us . |
| 7 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 8 | It was a warm night and I saw the moon shining on the sea as I told my story . |
| 9 | When I surfaced , gasping , the sky was intensely blue and I saw the moon , cratered and radiant , high over the tower on the distant Mount . |
| 10 | Her topcoat was open , and I saw the belt of knives — with one missing — strung from shoulder to waist . |
| 11 | After that we would go to Tahiti , and I saw the excitement grow in Ellen as she realised that these plans were so close to coming true . |
| 12 | I was told not to push then , and I saw the midwife go to cut the cord , and finally it clicked what all the fuss had been about . |
| 13 | Somebody brought a light and I saw the inside of the house . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I looked out of the window and I saw the postman delivering letters . |
| 16 | I had on the Ring of Luned that brings invisibility , and I saw the Glass Castle and the chains hanging in the Great Tower . |
| 17 | I tried to open the window- and I saw the glass . |
| 18 | And I saw the science club one about the bones . |
| 19 | Santerre shook his head but his face was pallid and I saw the beads of sweat on his cheeks . |
| 20 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
| 21 | Almost one might , says the other Robert , and I saw the seed fall on fertile ground , and there he 's tended it ever since . |
| 22 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I thought it was a brown leaf , but it moved again , and I saw the object of my greatest dread , a toad . |
| 25 | Marcus was doubled over and I saw the woman tumbling backwards . |
| 26 | I believe there are several thousand States in Ireland now and I see the sense of locality that has always dominated here as basically a time-serving National identity . |
| 27 | I have enough intelligence to go and look at graphs and look at charts and do my research and I see the turn that was made from 1979 to 1989 and I see the way things are in my country . |
| 28 | Well fuck when I come back up he near had the fucking front door broke trying to get it open so that they 'd come in the front and I see the kitchen door 's closed and I just walked in and I said well John the dishes or nothing 's done if you wan na go and have a look because he would n't do them . |
| 29 | I have enough intelligence to go and look at graphs and look at charts and do my research and I see the turn that was made from 1979 to 1989 and I see the way things are in my country . |
| 30 | And I again do n't understand these figures because I take from table two and I see the A sixty one er reading going from twenty four thousand to nineteen thousand on the opening of the bypass . |