Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |
| 2 | Where you saw the pantomime ? |
| 3 | When he heard of the disappearance of Mrs Wilks , 22 , he drove back down the motorway and noted the marker post number where he saw the car . |
| 4 | The normal reason for this is that , although you saw the graphic on the page and it printed correctly on the LaserWriter you copied the publication onto a disk and sent that to the bureau . |
| 5 | Though Nick stared in bewilderment Mr Evans just said , ‘ So you saw the idiot , did you ? ’ |
| 6 | Once you saw the word " prostitution " in a church magazine and asked what it meant , and once " rape " in the newspaper . |
| 7 | Once they saw the set up they thought it was wonderful , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The year 1927 was a good year from several viewpoints , although it saw the death of Sir Anker Simmons ( knighted in 1920 ) , one of the Club 's quartet of founders . |
| 9 | If no-one saw the caravan being towed along any of the main roads in the area , then Allen believes the gang may have stored it somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 10 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 11 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 12 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you were exaggerating , ’ Oliver admitted , ‘ until I saw the menace in that fellow 's eyes . ’ |
| 14 | He says : I still was n't sure about him until I saw the video of his goals . |
| 15 | I intended being one of the three people to live in Oxford Street , until I saw the place . |
| 16 | until I saw the apparition |
| 17 | Well cos I saw the cover of it and it looked really good . |
| 18 | These are often documents that were never included in the original audit — perhaps never existed until someone saw the potential of the new system and decided to exploit it . |
| 19 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 20 | Elizabeth , poor Elizabeth ran into the sunlight and he stopped the car and he got out and Elizabeth ran towards the car until she saw the girl . |
| 21 | Too frightened to brave the front of the hotel , she found the staff stairs to escape by , and she hid behind a peculiarly luscious tropical plant until she saw the porter waiting perplexedly beside the taxi she 'd ordered . |
| 22 | She ran from him , nightmare panic making her breathing and heartbeat echo down the long tree-lined path until she saw the moon shining through a stained-glass window of the garden of Eden . |
| 23 | I do n't believe Mrs Goreng had known either , until she saw the jet . |
| 24 | Nausea welled up in her ; she fought it down , forcing herself to concentrate on the road , to hang on until she saw the street sign Chemin de la Tourelle . |
| 25 | It would be best if you saw the boy yourself . ’ |
| 26 | Mind you , if you saw the state of his shirts , you might agree that a little mollycoddling was in order . |
| 27 | Most of these schools are in very remote spots and this particular one is surrounded by mountains ( close the borders of the kingdom of Lesotho and near the spot where Donald Woods escaped over the river to Lesotho , if you saw the film Cry Freedom . |
| 28 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 29 | All went well until we saw the cow which had originally smashed the crush . |
| 30 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |