Example sentences of "he [adv] see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Banting , the crown undertaker , who provided the model for the future ; for he rarely saw a corpse , contracting out at every stage of the proceedings . |
| 2 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 3 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 4 | As Zen came through the door he suddenly saw an opening and lunged forward , so that for the next thirty seconds or so he was unable to reply to his visitor 's question . |
| 5 | He simply sees a connection between the sham lion hunt and the all-too-real execution of his brother . |
| 6 | If he is of a poetic turn of mind , will he even see a kind of justice in the eventual return to silicon-based life , with DNA no more than an interlude , albeit one that lasted longer than three aeons ? |
| 7 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 8 | ‘ He says he never saw a body when he moved it . |
| 9 | ‘ He was a middle-aged guy and I was beginning to think that he never saw a guy with long hair before . |