Example sentences of "[noun sg] they saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
| 2 | And through the window of the spaceship they saw the Moon before them , cold , white and beautiful ; and under the Moon , there was the Moon colony ! |
| 3 | If the tide was low the two of them watched the gleams on the foreshore , at half tide they heard the water chuckling , waiting to lift the boats , at flood tide they saw the river as a powerful god , bearded with the white foam of detergents , calling home the twenty-seven lost rivers of London , sighing as the night declined . |
| 4 | In Inverness , Johnson held forth on the benefits Scotland had derived from the Union , and after church they saw the Quay and Macbeth 's Castle , and had lunch with Mr Keith , the excise collector , whose wife quizzed Johnson about his ‘ drinking water ’ . |
| 5 | They believed , you see , that the tortoise was an animal of great purity — in its hard-soft form they saw the meeting of Yin and Yang , of Heaven and Earth . |
| 6 | One couple who 'd been there told the inquest they saw the plane flying low , coughing and spluttering . |
| 7 | One couple who 'd been there told the inquest they saw the plane flying low , coughing and spluttering . |
| 8 | This time they saw the church in all its Moorish exuberance . |