Example sentences of "[coord] saw [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a sudden instinct Burun looked round and saw that the offworlder Suragai was standing at the water 's edge . |
| 2 | He turned and saw that the window ledge was about three feet above him . |
| 3 | On arrival at the hairpin bend I looked over my shoulder and saw that the kakar had lowered her head , and was once more cropping the grass . |
| 4 | Fabia protested — and saw that the word appointment was a word the woman did n't understand . |
| 5 | Cecilia turned somewhat fearfully back and saw that the man and the bear had gone to the far end of the coach where a woman not much younger than herself sat alone . |
| 6 | ‘ The lady went to her rear lounge window and saw that the whole of next door 's window had been blown out . ’ |
| 7 | Immediately , they heard raised voices and saw that the porter was engaged in an altercation with two men in trench coats . |
| 8 | He jumped to his feet and saw that the sky seemed on fire . |
| 9 | I railed at the NSS typesetters and then happened to look at my own copy and saw that the mistake was entirely mine . |
| 10 | He spent a week in Majorca watching his son at Santa Ponsa and saw that the pause at the top of his backswing had gone . |
| 11 | Quickly pushing his baby son into his wife 's arms , Andrews ran to the downed plane and saw that the pilot was trapped in his cockpit . |
| 12 | As she was poking about for more loot I glanced back at Granny and saw that the sheet had moved again . |
| 13 | Andrews flagged down a passing vehicle , and saw that the driver would take the pilot to the nearest hospital , then calmly went home with his wife to have his dinner . |
| 14 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 15 | I hastily found the options screen and saw that the level was set to a ‘ ten years ’ old setting . |
| 16 | She reached the house in which her father had lived and saw that the door was not quite closed . |
| 17 | I glanced at it quickly and saw that the advertising manager had written to confirm the booking of a double-page spread in the colour supplement for six successive weeks , beginning on the Sunday after the Open Golf Championship . |
| 18 | Too tired to be surprised by anything , Nenna looked at the davits and saw that the dinghy must have been lowered away already . |
| 19 | ‘ We shall not need to use that formation again , ’ Thorfinn said , and saw that the forest was quiet and the scouts had nothing to disturb them before turning to walk to his men . |
| 20 | I put on my best alert face , in case my mother was watching , and saw that the camera was in close on Jack , so the cameraman had neatly avoided getting the sponsor 's name into his shot . |
| 21 | In confusion again , Louisa looked up and saw that the light was performing wondrously now across the lake . |
| 22 | Helen turned and saw that the Colonel was putting on white clothes on top of his army uniform . |
| 23 | He moved it gently forward and saw that the grate had , in fact , been recently used ; someone had tried to burn a diary . |
| 24 | Reluctantly she turned around — and saw that the rider was Mr Barnet ; also that he was exceedingly angry , his eyebrows meeting in a fierce scowl , his dark eyes blazing . |
| 25 | They looked up , and saw that the boat had drifted against an islet in the river . |
| 26 | I looked down at the chart and saw that the island was not so very far off our course , and I knew that the Beechcraft was brim-full with fuel . |
| 27 | She looked back towards the fig tree and saw that the toad had lumbered off into the tangled garden , perhaps to rejoin its tormentor . |
| 28 | Tim was startled but saw that the determination in Oliver 's eye belied his friendly tone . |
| 29 | Hope did not pursue the matter but saw that the claret was finished rapidly and went up to his room , his brain twisting around obstacles , snaking over the barricades of his common sense , scaling the walls of his strategies . |