Example sentences of "[noun sg] he saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he pushed him towards the light , and in the light he saw the face of a boy of twenty . |
| 2 | His motion dashed the tears from his eyes , and as he came to a halt he saw the visitor plainly . |
| 3 | And in that moment he saw the shape formed by the moving depths . |
| 4 | Out of the corner of his eye he saw the stretcher give a great jump . |
| 5 | Out of the corner of an eye he saw the Captain smile faintly . |
| 6 | At the top of a hill he saw the sea , stretching for miles in front of him . |
| 7 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 8 | In the gathering dusk he saw the boy , his back to him , staring down the darkening street . |
| 9 | He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand . |
| 10 | On the television he saw the President waving at the cameras before the doors on Air Force One closed . |
| 11 | Through the smoke he saw the balloon dropping , its basket swinging wildly . |
| 12 | As he opened the door he saw the official , stripped naked , leaning over the bath . |
| 13 | As he closed the gate he saw the curtain drop into position in the front window . |
| 14 | But to his horror he saw the boy cup his hands round his mouth and make a crude and earsplittingly loud imitation of a pheasant 's call . |
| 15 | Whitlock swung the Golf Corbio on to the sliproad , past the hoarding , and as he reached the crest of the first rise he saw the plant laid out before him , hemmed in behind ten-feet-high fencing crowned with layers of barbed wire , all of which he later discovered could be electrified at the flick of a switch . |
| 16 | In that same instant he saw the menace he faced . |
| 17 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 18 | Philip ran towards it and as he came round the slight bend in the wide path he saw the boy tugging at it . |
| 19 | As soon as he was inside the garden he saw the couple hitting each other with chairs ; ‘ The woman hit harder and had the upper hand ’ . |
| 20 | In the time following The Waste Land he saw the world despairingly , in terms of inane , savage horror . |
| 21 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |
| 22 | In the reflected light of the fire he saw the silhouette of an entirely naked Moi female kneeling at his side , and as he watched , her hands began working rhythmically at some unseen task . |