Example sentences of "he saw the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorphal picked up the parchment and raised one eyebrow slightly when he saw the familiar ideograms of the Golden Empire . |
| 2 | In his chair he saw the familiar features of the president looking back at him , the face he knew so well from his television set and the newspapers . |
| 3 | Cutting across country in the morning light he saw the Japanese transports moored peacefully in Dili harbour . |
| 4 | The haze of his first cigarette clouded the room briefly and in the streak of light from the curtains he saw the heaped clothes and the mark on the hotel carpet where he 'd knocked over the glass of water . |
| 5 | He saw the daft circles they made as a wind lifted the flames and turned them ; he saw their hysterical galloping back and forth , and saw the cherry-red line crackling across the stumps of corn , towing its apron of smoke . |
| 6 | He saw the new drugs as a threat to his well-being , and lived in dread of the day when they might be prescribed for him . |
| 7 | As he saw the first men fall in the ambush , Lachlan 's shipmaster yelled for his men to fall back . |
| 8 | He saw the tatty rooms , the junk-shop furniture … hoped it was something she 'd eventually work through , so that we could be together again . |
| 9 | Returning from a London party , he was driving down Radnor Walk when he saw the unmarked vans parked by the kerb in front of Tweed 's terrace house . |
| 10 | He saw the long lashes drop for an instant and the lips contract fearfully , and laughed . |
| 11 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
| 12 | He saw the spilled spirits and the creeping flames . |
| 13 | He was furious when he saw the rubbishy episodes . |
| 14 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 15 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 16 | He saw the two women sitting there as the Orion glided past and disappeared up a side street . |
| 17 | They are watching me , thought Rupert Stonebird , as he saw the two women walking rather too slowly down the road . |
| 18 | Then a flicker of movement caught his eye off to one side of the clearing , and he saw the two youngsters were still hovering there uncertainly . |
| 19 | She was exquisite , even in a shabby dark gown , and as she came up to him he saw the luminous eyes filled with what he most wanted to see . |
| 20 | Through the carved window he saw the wet branches of the evergreens , darker on the dark . |
| 21 | Athelstan thought the odour came from that but , looking around , he saw the rotting heads which had been placed on spikes in the gaps of the crenellated wall . |
| 22 | While in his bedroom , he saw the electric bulbs light up . |
| 23 | Now he saw the missing details in his nightmare . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ’ Connelly shouted as he saw the glowing rings and felt their heat . |
| 25 | In the end , when he saw the red crosses , he let us go . |
| 26 | He saw the half-dressed models then , and quickly walked away , only just taking a deep breath in time as he walked out from the cover of the parked car . |
| 27 | For a second Sharpe 's heart leapt , thinking that a battalion of Riflemen had arrived , then he saw the yellow crossbelts over the green coats and he knew he was seeing Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar 's force of Nassauers . |
| 28 | The lights in its eyes faded and he saw the pricked ears descend . |
| 29 | In his head he saw the hung sheets dotted with coal-smuts torn from their pegs and ripped into bandages as they sailed above the foxgloves . |
| 30 | In his drugged dreams he saw the silent faces crying ; he saw the loving mouth distorted with grief ; he knew about the humiliation and the want — all his fault , his fault , his responsibility , his wickedness , his weakness , his sin , his sacrificial past , the victim to what end — who was murdered at that powerful stone circle near Keswick ? |