Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in one bookshop , just before Christmas , I saw two women examining books on football suitable for young people . |
| 2 | I woke early , and when I looked out of the window , I saw two men examining our boat , but I decided not to wake Herbert or Startop , who needed their rest after rowing all the previous day . |
| 3 | Then I saw two men hitting each other , others running , some falling down . |
| 4 | Driving through Kilmartin , south of Oban , I saw two notices calling public meetings to discuss pollution — the first I and many others had heard about this problem . |
| 5 | ‘ I saw one soldier standing in the road . |
| 6 | I saw one woman standing at the door of her ruined home , crying and bewildered , with dried blood on her forehead . |
| 7 | From the windows of my room I saw all London lying in the distance like a great vapour , with here and there some lights twinkling through it . ’ |
| 8 | I 've just realized I have n't either , when I saw that woman crossing the road I thought it was her . |
| 9 | When I saw that woman crossing the road , I thought it was here . |
| 10 | I saw curled flora swooping and trembling , like pulses or soft explosions in the side of the head . |
| 11 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 12 | ‘ When the car had gone past me I applied my safety-catch and I saw Private Aindow standing in a firing position ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw this bloke looking in the jeweller 's window , ’ said Mr Sutton . |
| 14 | I saw this cat coming down the road |
| 15 | ‘ I saw another policeman lying across the front seat . |
| 16 | I saw another soldier standing behind him . |
| 17 | Just as I was trying to find a hole in the hedge , so that I could get into the next field , I saw another giant coming towards me . |
| 18 | ‘ I think we had reached about 11,000 feet when the barrage opened up over Valetta and , against the white puffs , I saw seven biplanes heading directly towards us in a shallow vic formation . |
| 19 | She saw two figures bending over a patch towards the back ; not far from the pit she and Pat and Jim had dug , though a big hedge stood between . |
| 20 | She saw two cars disappearing down the dirt track , away from the cottage , their tail-lights gradually swallowed by the gloom and the relentless downpour . |
| 21 | ah she said she saw this fella hitting the wall and hitting the football halfway out in the road , it was fucking me . |
| 22 | ‘ A guest , Colonel Merrick 's wife , was in one of the rooms upstairs brushing her hair by candlelight in front of the mirror , when she saw this face peering over her shoulder . |
| 23 | In a short flashing dream she saw green water foaming down the basement stairs . |
| 24 | She saw old Diggory shuffling off to the back regions , the protesting Hector in tow . |
| 25 | You loathed it when you saw other people behaving like this and yet you could no more control it in yourself than you could any other automatic physical reflex . |
| 26 | A man who reacted violently when he saw his wife in a car with a bus driver , after his wife had refused him sex for six years , was told by the Recorder of London , Sir James Miskin QC : ‘ You saw this man kissing your wife and understandably felt the misery of the situation . |
| 27 | If we saw two blokes coming out of a pub rolling drunk we might wait to see what develops before acting . |
| 28 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 29 | We saw leading brewers thinking about segregating property from brewing , and we saw one major brewer thinking about introducing new styles of lease , which is the main burden of the hon. Gentleman 's criticisms . |
| 30 | We were as glad as anything when we saw this rain coming down . |