Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the first time he let me see the extent of the bitterness that was poisoning him . |
| 2 | And he let them see the gun . |
| 3 | The tears gathered more thickly in his eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under a dripping tree . |
| 4 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 5 | As he collapsed he saw the Doctor being pummelled by the mob . |
| 6 | He thought he saw the girl again , but he could not be sure . |
| 7 | What he did he saw he saw the method and saw well this is quite neat . |
| 8 | When he did they saw the dead animal and , in fury at being deprived of their sport , they ran the hermit through with their boar staves . |
| 9 | He said he saw the boy being thrown through the air on impact , and the car crossed in front of the lorry , mounted the pavement and stopped on the foreshore . |
| 10 | As he ran she saw the man working the gun into the front of his overalls , and she saw him also , with his free hand , drag the woollen cap back down across his forehead . |