Example sentences of "he saw the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming at it , at this angle on this hot evening , he saw the change vividly . |
| 2 | He thought he saw the girl again , but he could not be sure . |
| 3 | He saw the girl out and put the bar up across the double doors . |
| 4 | Eubank , the WBO super middleweight champion , was stunned when he saw the message yesterday . |
| 5 | He saw the state not merely as a division but as a combination of labour , an economic community or union every bit as real as the household or firm , and far more powerful . |
| 6 | He looked down at Scathach 's armour , touched the small wound on his son 's shoulder , then looked into the young man 's face ; he saw the distance there , the faraway look . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He dropped his gaze from the burning orbs in the dark interior of the big car … and he saw the gun again . |
| 9 | The only other sighting we 've had was a farm worker who thought he saw the car up towards Cumbermound about nine . |
| 10 | But he saw the reaction also of the Africans , who had never heard a white man speak in such terms . |
| 11 | He saw the department totally Indianized . |
| 12 | Alex first witnessed the perils of pop stardom a decade ago when , having done Killing Joke 's laundry , he saw the band almost split over who owned which pair of newly washed socks . |
| 13 | Buxton retained that access into a period when almost no other prominent active antislavery leader had it , though in accord with changing times , he saw the usefulness also of popular mobilisation . |
| 14 | ‘ He saw the doctor today , you know . |
| 15 | He saw the pedestrian too late , the court was told . |
| 16 | In the time following The Waste Land he saw the world despairingly , in terms of inane , savage horror . |
| 17 | His motion dashed the tears from his eyes , and as he came to a halt he saw the visitor plainly . |
| 18 | As Dexter staggered out of the door , he saw the superintendent still pondering over Nicola 's letter , her face bathed in the light of her desk lamp . |
| 19 | And Senator Eagleton , who had successfully brought in a reclassification amendment so that amphetamine would be more tightly controlled , stated , when he saw the amendment subsequently overturned : ‘ when the chips are down , the power of the drug companies was simply more compelling than any appeal to the public welfare ’ ( p. 53 ) . |