Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight of their first 10 concerts were in Leeds but a rare excursion saw them appear at the Old Bell pub in Derby . |
| 2 | Not long afterwards , watching , he saw them appear on the roof They looked around for a moment and then went down . |
| 3 | I saw them gleam in the lamp-light . |
| 4 | A witness says she saw them knock on the door . ’ |
| 5 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 6 | Cos we saw them walk down the road after , sort of after him and I said |
| 7 | " Mrs Mott 's brownies " , said Sara when she saw them emerge from the picnic basket . |
| 8 | Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room . |
| 9 | so we saw them , er saw them actually because we live in a flat , and we saw them coming from the station , er one , one Saturday morning |
| 10 | The Pumas path to the final saw them account for the second Hallamshire squad represented at the weekend , thus ending any aspirations of Yorkshire success . |
| 11 | Dulé passed them and remembered how he had only felt wonder , not this stab of pleasure , when first he saw them sleeping on the ground near Ariel 's cabin that long year ago . |
| 12 | He was gratified , therefore , when he saw them come into the church at Gillamoor , accompanied by Victoria , and the three year old Hilary . |
| 13 | And then he saw them come into the amber flicker of the firelight with the flames lighting green lamps in their heads . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw them spooning on the beach , ’ she added , rather wistfully . |
| 15 | saw them standing outside the gate , he 's coming to get me |
| 16 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
| 17 | Jarvis saw them get into the next car and on an impulse he jumped up and followed them . |
| 18 | We found the taxi driver who took him and the girl to the station and witnesses who saw them get on the train . |
| 19 | Then he saw them lying on the ground , but not complete clubs , just the heads with their covers on , protruding from a detachable section that could be removed to expose the empty cylinder of the golf-bag . |
| 20 | Reid saw me looking at the iron bars . |
| 21 | He saw me looking at the picture and said , ‘ Kolwezi , Southern Zaire , 1978 . ’ |
| 22 | All my mates , my tutor , everyone saw me bundled into the back of the squad car . |
| 23 | When the doctor saw me sitting beside the boy a puzzled look crossed his face . |
| 24 | I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove . |
| 25 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 26 | ‘ If I saw me coming into the dressing room I 'd have myself kicked out . ’ |
| 27 | A child in a doorway saw me coming through the olives and called , and then the entire population of the tiny hamlet appeared — four women and half a dozen children , unmistakably islanders . |
| 28 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 29 | I often saw you sprawling on the floor or on a park bench , a joyous sunburst of creases radiating from your abandoned crotch , your jumping fly . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw you looking over the fillies , ’ he said with a braying laugh . |