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Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] saw a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order .
2	Later in the afternoon I saw a meal for all 600 prisoners being cooked in one gigantic iron pot over a blazing fire .
3	I started running and when I reached this end of the scaffolding I saw a woman bending over something on the ground at the other end .
4	He braked in the yard at the rear of the Lodge , and through the windscreen I saw a plume of smoke rising almost vertically beyond a pantiled outbuilding which I assumed must be Laura 's studio .
5	For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves .
6	The little girl you saw a moment ago was my niece .
7	At a turn in the corridor she saw a picture she remembered , a ship at sea , and under the waves a chariot racing from a previous painting .
8	Through one window he saw a bathroom , just like his own at home only a thousand times smaller .
9	Out of the bus window he saw a manor house , with barley-sugar-stick chimneys .
10	As the mountain loomed over Rincewind like the biggest fly-swatter in the universe he saw a cave mouth .
11	In that dream he saw a vision of loveliness : himself as Foreign Secretary .
12	Then yesterday as I was doing my prison-exercise in the outer cellar I saw a nail .
13	Out of the corner of her eye she saw a man in a white coat floundering through the snow towards them , and in some intuitive way this increased her anxiety to be off .
14	I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze .
15	Out of the corner of his eye he saw a face appear in the corridor .
16	On the way back over the lines west we saw a lot of traffic with trains going to Oxford , coal to Didcot power station , 125 's to the West Country and three class 37 's up and down with nowhere to go .
17	‘ At first I thought art was simply a matter of reproducing what I saw ; but one day I saw a reproduction of Piero della Francesca 's Pietà , and I suddenly realised that there was a huge spiritual element in painting .
18	One day I saw a man pulling a small cart .
19	One night I saw a film about Jesus Christ .
20	Mrs Swales told the court she saw a lot of shouting and arguing , but she did not intervene or try to get involved .
21	When she arrived at the theatre that night she saw a note pinned up at the stage door stating that it had come to the management 's notice that a Girl had been flying , which was forbidden !
22	The following day they saw a column of vehicles approaching from the wrong direction to that from which Timpson should have appeared .
23	He would not have to wait long — in the distance he saw a flight of P-51s engaged in combat simulation , just the scenario for some ‘ rat-racing ’ .
24	Sometime during the next day he saw a man in a harness being lowered by cable towards Corti ; heard a shout : ‘ I have him ! ’
25	All his efforts had failed when one day he saw a copy in his local library in a corner of discarded books .
26	That very night he saw a lawyer , the priest , the chairman of the poor law guardians , and the nurse , putting in hand all the arrangement necessary to secure Mary 's immediate future .
27	Then one morning I saw a figure coming towards me faster than any man could go .
28	One morning I saw a tray of lettuces had been disturbed .
29	Only last week we saw a collision in the Channel at a real cost , eight seamen 's lives .
30	Now I 'd like to emphasize this as because within York area it saw a difference between the census counts to the actual base population of a growth of five point seven two percent .