Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I told her I saw him clear as day .
2 But once I saw him lumbering down Ward Street , you know , opposite , and he was here as well , messing around with the television .
3 This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) .
4 Then suddenly I saw him riding towards me .
5 Ages later I saw him listening to the band and clutching his fistful of Mickeys .
6 I realize that I am standing just as Summerchild stood that other night , when I saw him gazing with such intensity into his own life .
7 When Sir Oswald appeared on the steps , the crowd surged round him and I saw him struck from the right .
8 I saw him looking at her , you know , when
9 Then I saw him looking in one of the restaurant windows , keeping himself kind of flattened up against the wall . ’
10 I saw him go into the room where the telephone is . ’
11 I saw him go through the gate into the woods … ’
12 I 've had one of your chaps round already , asking whether I saw him go by that evening . ’
13 I saw him go in there . ’
14 ‘ I think I saw him go in Mr Kimberley 's room , sir . ’
15 When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts .
16 I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game .
17 I saw him play in the Schools Cup . ’
18 I saw him focus on a boat which lay almost stationary beneath its single sail , fairly close to shore .
19 Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’
20 I saw him like on the right , on the path and I goes I goes what you do I goes gon na be sick .
21 His body was hairy , muscled , well-shaped , and when I saw him strip for bed he reminded me of a gorilla about to pounce upon its prey .
22 The path I took ran past Mr Frankland 's house , and I saw him standing at his gate .
23 I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’
24 I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter .
25 Coming near , I saw him lying on this tiny bed .
26 I saw him lying in a hospital corridor . ’
27 I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka .
28 I saw him come up the path , ’ said an angry voice .
29 Well when I , I saw him come in door at this end and I thought oh well , I 'll follow them see if they 've gone back and they were sat , well it must have been behind the back
30 I saw him talking to Nubeneham .
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