Example sentences of "he saw [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He saw them to the door but when they rode past a minute later , it was already shut .
2 It was not the case that he neglected domestic issues — least of all in the period 1963 – 65 — but rather that he saw them within the larger framework of France 's relations with the world .
3 Dazedly he saw them by the sagging chaise-longue .
4 Doubtless they describe the hard life of the villager and the poverty of his surroundings as Crabbe saw them : but he was not a peasant , as Clare was , and he saw them from the outside as harsh , ugly and wretched .
5 It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time .
6 No I know Chris told me cos he saw him on the morning at the garage then he .
7 We reached the Bedford Square House and he saw me up the steps .
8 He saw me up the steps and then bounded down them and drove away .
9 He saw me for the first time .
10 He saw me on the telly . ’
11 He saw me on the television the other weekend .
12 My lady and gentleman took him out that night and he drank a lot of fizzy stuff and fell over — I 'm black and I do n't think he saw me in the darkness .
13 He saw her into the studio , checked that the heating was on , gave her a double whisky .
14 His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman .
15 She was curious as to how he felt when he saw her at the docks the other day .
16 As he saw her to the door , he felt in his pockets .
17 He paused when he saw her by the iron railings that separated mown lawn from pasture .
18 He saw her in the doorway , and said , ‘ What are you hanging around for ? ’
19 Fran must have made some noise , some movement , some tiny betraying gesture , because he swung round , his face hardening when he saw her in the doorway .
20 He saw you from the window just now . ’
21 Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained .
22 He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma .
23 It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act .
24 I had a mental picture of the conductor on the red London bus talking to Hammouda the village postman , of the English boy 's friends playing with Khadija 's grandson , especially Margaret , whose hair reminded me of the coloured feather duster Khadija 's grandson had pleaded for everytime he saw it in the market , thinking that it was a toy or a bird .
25 He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was .
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