Example sentences of "[noun sg] he saw [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Euripides , understanding generated all enjoyment and creation , but at the heart of tragedy he saw something inexplicable and altogether " incommensurable " with the workings of reason . |
| 2 | Near nightfall he saw his younger sister Katya come out of the kitchens into the yard , saw her empty some slops for the few chickens who scuttled about . |
| 3 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 4 | He just did n't look the right sort of boy — in the bathroom mirror he saw his wishy-washy face , freckled and slightly spotty , his wishy-washy blue eyes staring mournfully back ; in no way did the image relate to the brown , sparkling athletes who drank beer after a game of soccer in the commercials . |
| 5 | On the one hand he saw his own suspicions mirrored in the Bishop 's eyes , on the other Wishart realised that such an interview might alienate the French and cause more trouble than it was worth . |
| 6 | Through the long slow hours of darkness he saw her lovely face and forgot that she did not love him . |
| 7 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |
| 8 | The natural world for Coleridge was a synthesised whole , and to a large extent he saw his poetic creativity as stemming from being in unison with his surroundings . |
| 9 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |