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 . |