Example sentences of "and [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He turned from the window , and she saw the mask was back in place . |
| 32 | Her defiance gave her the courage to lift her eyes to his for the first time , and she saw the surprise and sudden uncertainty that flashed across them . |
| 33 | Then she remembered someone taking off her nightgown , and a brisk woman in a white starched uniform saying something about going into the theatre — and she saw the doctor again , talking earnestly to a man in a long white gown who was pulling on a pair of rubber gloves … . |
| 34 | He smiled , and she saw the gleam of perfect white teeth . |
| 35 | She contrasted her experience of school physics with university physics , and she saw the distinction as a quantitative/qualitative one . |
| 36 | A mask seemed to fall away from his face , and she saw the torment in his eyes . |
| 37 | He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand . |
| 38 | He turned , and she saw the approval in his face . |
| 39 | A lady traveller on the Exeter express told John Ruskin that she was in the carriage from which Turner put his head out in a rainstorm to record the scene mentally , and she saw the picture at the Royal Academy the next year , in 1844 . |
| 40 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 41 | One of these er , I suppose it 'd be a ballpoint or whatever you call it and this , I 've still got it , it says on the Queen Elizabeth , see , and er , you see , we said , we said , well never mind very much , we can have something a snack afterwards and so we stayed on there from eleven o'clock in the morning until three in the afternoon , you see , and er er and we were wandering around and we saw the dining room , we saw the captain 's table and er , you know it was , and , and then we looked along one deck , we were high up , and down below there were rows of , rows of lifeboats in case you see |
| 42 | Near the entrance of the open-plan dining area was a large bird-table , and we saw the reason for that when meal-time came . |
| 43 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 44 | Erm I think it it it started off , people would come in the dayroom , with their own supplementary benefit problem , and and clearly we had the sort of handbooks there and and they saw the probation officers on on duty as people who could help them to sort out that sort out that kind of problem . |
| 45 | And I think what that emphasises in the constitution is that the founding fathers , who devised the constitution , saw the congress as the central organ of American government and they saw the presidency as an appendage . |
| 46 | As they passed the third cave , the golden bee flew out of the woman 's sleeve , and they saw the lightning flash and heard the thunder crack behind them . |
| 47 | But er I mean it always er gained there was just a few working with it and they saw the improvement it was making and then everybody for the wild white clover . |
| 48 | And he saw the stubbornness under her brows . |
| 49 | Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain . |
| 50 | And he saw the work of an old favourite of his from the London days , J Maris , who had some beautiful things on show . |
| 51 | She slid the thin silk robe from her shoulders and stood naked before the fire , looking at him , and he saw the humility and the fear in her eyes , and felt something fierce and triumphant uncoil . |
| 52 | ‘ We are pretty certain Watson just mugged because they were there and he saw the chance of easy pickings without much danger of violence being offered back to him , ’ said a policeman . |
| 53 | I do n't wan na be told that somebody and some remote things , like which was mine , and somebody would say , well he saw it and he saw the policeman ah they would come , they 've never catch them ! |
| 54 | If Jewish control could not be challenged constitutionally it would have to be done by acts of Steel ; and he saw the time approaching when , like the mayor of Bethlehem , he would have to arm his son against the Jews . |
| 55 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 56 | He dropped his gaze from the burning orbs in the dark interior of the big car … and he saw the gun again . |
| 57 | The VW , driven by Wing , overtook and he saw the defendant 's brother , a passenger in the car , gesticulating at him . |
| 58 | It whined deep in its throat , as though in pain , and he saw the body grow paler as the fur sloughed away into nothing . |
| 59 | From the darkness where the thicker growth of box began , a shadowy figure slipped out to join him , and he saw the oval of a girl 's face as a paler gleam above her dark coat . |
| 60 | He held the paper in both hands and he saw the paper waver in front of his spectacles . |