Example sentences of "and [pron] saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although it is almost certain death to look on them , Fergus , I stole out of the Palace that night , and I saw the green and blue smoke that indicates their presence , and I saw , just for a moment , the Elven King , Aillen mac Midha , seated cross-legged on the ground . |
| 2 | ‘ When Karen broke the news of our marriage so crudely at Thomas 's party , and I saw the look on your face , I understood for the first time the force of that old cliché about wishing the floor would open up and swallow one . |
| 3 | Then the lights went up and I saw the chucker-out standing over us . |
| 4 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 5 | It was a warm night and I saw the moon shining on the sea as I told my story . |
| 6 | When I surfaced , gasping , the sky was intensely blue and I saw the moon , cratered and radiant , high over the tower on the distant Mount . |
| 7 | Her topcoat was open , and I saw the belt of knives — with one missing — strung from shoulder to waist . |
| 8 | After that we would go to Tahiti , and I saw the excitement grow in Ellen as she realised that these plans were so close to coming true . |
| 9 | I was told not to push then , and I saw the midwife go to cut the cord , and finally it clicked what all the fuss had been about . |
| 10 | Somebody brought a light and I saw the inside of the house . |
| 11 | One Christmas I was flying over the city of Boston in America it night and I saw the Christmas lights like networks of jewellery flickering through the freezing air ; and hardly ever in my life had I seen anything more dazzling or beautiful . |
| 12 | I looked out of the window and I saw the postman delivering letters . |
| 13 | I had on the Ring of Luned that brings invisibility , and I saw the Glass Castle and the chains hanging in the Great Tower . |
| 14 | I tried to open the window- and I saw the glass . |
| 15 | And I saw the science club one about the bones . |
| 16 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
| 17 | Almost one might , says the other Robert , and I saw the seed fall on fertile ground , and there he 's tended it ever since . |
| 18 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
| 19 | Then , one morning in my twenty-third year on the island , I was out in my fields and I saw the smoke from a fire . |
| 20 | I thought it was a brown leaf , but it moved again , and I saw the object of my greatest dread , a toad . |
| 21 | Marcus was doubled over and I saw the woman tumbling backwards . |
| 22 | The winter storms at sea that year were worse than ever , and so the Star never arrived in Georgia , and nobody saw the captain or his men again . |
| 23 | ‘ And you saw the trust accounts for last year , remember ? ’ |
| 24 | Occasionally , after refreshments — two would go in at two o'clock , two more at half past two , and so on — the only time you could have a natter with your colleague was when you left the station and you saw the sergeant going in for his refreshments . |
| 25 | She looked between his legs , but all was shadow there until he turned towards her and she saw the snake 's head loom . |
| 26 | The blood crust cracked , and she saw the night sky . |
| 27 | Briefly his gaze rested on Rachel and she saw the flicker of uncertainty in his eyes but there was no time for questions . |
| 28 | She saw her aloneness , now loneliness , and she saw the vista of age , which she had never contemplated before . |
| 29 | When he came to the part about the clip he glanced up , and she saw the flare of excitement in his silvery-green eyes before they dropped once again to the page . |
| 30 | It certainly brought the door banging open ; and she was still screaming when his body was lifted from her and she saw the poker coming down towards his head . |