Example sentences of "[noun sg] he saw [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting across country in the morning light he saw the Japanese transports moored peacefully in Dili harbour . |
| 2 | Through the carved window he saw the wet branches of the evergreens , darker on the dark . |
| 3 | He sailed for Algiers in March 1943 and during the last days of the Tunisian campaign he saw a mere fortnight 's active service . |
| 4 | In his mind 's eye he saw a faceless man marching over the child 's body . |
| 5 | As he walked through the centre of the town he saw a large group of navvies sauntering across the wide market square , whistling at the women and calling out to any particularly young or good-looking girls — or those of any age who were careless enough to throw a smile in their direction . |
| 6 | There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky . |
| 7 | But in the room he saw a young man who had once been his friend . |
| 8 | Walking into the dining room he saw a huge man about seven or eight feet tall standing behind the desk at the other end of the room . |
| 9 | In the far distance he saw the shadowed mouth of a large culvert angling towards them . |
| 10 | In his head he saw the hung sheets dotted with coal-smuts torn from their pegs and ripped into bandages as they sailed above the foxgloves . |
| 11 | In his chair he saw the familiar features of the president looking back at him , the face he knew so well from his television set and the newspapers . |
| 12 | Among the fragments of blackened paper he saw a used safety match , the unburnt half of the stem clean and white as if it had only recently been struck . |
| 13 | On the bridge he saw the third officer raise his hand to his cap in a debonair salute , and she waved gaily back . |
| 14 | Adams stated that whilst he and Moore were at supper he saw an unusual light in the direction of the Body Shop but , instead of going to see what it was and turning on the water from the hydrants to endeavour to arrest the progress of the flames , he caused the alarm bell to be rung and then ran to the gate to admit the Fire Brigade . |
| 15 | As he reached the front door he saw a strange sight . |
| 16 | In his rear view mirror he saw the solid yellow wall blocking the whole road . |
| 17 | But on the opposite side of the road he saw a little restaurant . |
| 18 | In the churchyard he saw a new headstone , on which was written : |
| 19 | D. A. A friend of mine was posted to a beat in Allerton and one summer 's afternoon he saw a young lad — about fifteen years of age — getting into a car . |
| 20 | He was in midstream when the clouds that had covered the moon parted and drifted away , and before him on the distant bank he saw the gracious , massive shapes of Strata Marcella pastured like sheep in their silver meadows . |
| 21 | Through the shimmer he saw the huge octopus eyes of the juggernaut grow dimmer . |
| 22 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 23 | On screen he saw a big hand closing over the struggler 's head . |
| 24 | On the same table he saw the young king , Chief Justice Fortescue , and some of the leading nobility of the realm . |
| 25 | In the nick of time he saw the yellow triangular patch on the shoulder . |
| 26 | The sensation of sharing airspace with a murderous enemy — although in fact he saw no other aircraft — was disconcerting , as was the coming to terms with the idea that not all the world was locked in war , but only parts of it . |