Example sentences of "[subord] he saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It seemed to give him a purpose which , up until he saw the sign , he had n't had . |
| 3 | It seemed to Creggan that she was surrounded by a powerful diffused light until he saw the mist was thinning and the sun beginning to shine . |
| 4 | The King grasped his wrist tightly , squeezing hard , not satisfied until he saw the Frenchman wince . |
| 5 | How could they have known he was going to that cinema when he had n't known himself until he saw the name at the station ? |
| 6 | It was my heart that broke when he went , yet I never had him searched for ; I durs n't think what 'd come , if he saw the lad now . |
| 7 | Perhaps the man was excited because he saw the chance of making more money , Kirov rejected , in the hope that reminding himself of the mercenary side of the Jew 's character might make his job a little easier . |
| 8 | Brunel made the broad gauge because he saw the advantage of stability , and making extra room for passengers |
| 9 | Some forms of psychotherapy are based on the work of Reich , an analyst who gave up ‘ talking ’ therapy because he saw the possibility of releasing emotional tension locked into the body , and making faster contact with the sources of conflict that cause pain and distress . |
| 10 | Insp Peter Clarke told the jury that he drove past Mrs Wilks , who was pregnant , after he saw the man pull on to the hard shoulder , towards a telephone box where she was making an SOS call to police headquarters . |
| 11 | Oliver , she decided , would have to wait until London before he saw the pot . |
| 12 | That was before he saw the apple . |
| 13 | Write the Captain 's log for the period that starts when they first saw the strange " whale " and ends when he saw the Monongahela for the last time . |
| 14 | They entered the Lawnmarket and Corbett shivered when he saw the gibbet and its rotten , swaying human fruit , black figures against the moonlit , summer night sky . |
| 15 | Jane Davis , prosecuting , had earlier told the court that Orchard , of Farringdon , London , had been walking his dog when he saw the girl in a playground in the King 's Cross area one evening last July . |
| 16 | His marriage was only weeks away and the responsibility he felt for Virginia had grown more onerous when he saw the love in her . |
| 17 | When Cliff went to Bangladesh he was already a member of Tear Fund but when he saw the suffering he felt that he had to do more and was ready to give up his singing career and follow his religious instincts to help these people . |
| 18 | When he saw the cap badges he felt himself to be on home ground . |
| 19 | When he saw the ball trickling back towards his stumps , he used his left hand to sweep the ball away . |
| 20 | Homer Scott was delighted when he saw the building for the first time at the May Day meeting and even the course bookmakers who are not known for lavishing praise on anything , are impressed by what has been built . |
| 21 | He looked round sharply then exhaled deeply when he saw the man 's face peering in at him . |
| 22 | Georgiades had a man on that route , too , but there was only one of him and when he saw the man coming he did not risk leaving his post to run and tell them but watched the man until he was safely inside the shop . |
| 23 | You did n't spend half enough when you got the chance , ’ he said when he saw the bill . |
| 24 | George Male was walking to Upton Park tube station when he saw the bill : ‘ Herbert Chapman Dead . ’ |
| 25 | Nehru wept when he saw the clause accepting safeguards . |
| 26 | When he saw the invitation , Khrushchev tells us he could not believe his eyes . |
| 27 | When he saw the state the girl was in he sat her in an armchair and sent his adjutant to get her something to drink . |
| 28 | Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . |
| 29 | A second lorry driver Peter Walling later saw a man naked from the waist up scramble up the river bank but disappear when he saw the lorry . |
| 30 | Gregson smiled when he saw the look on Finn 's face . |