Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I 'd had a and er they , I never saw them on the floor . |
| 2 | They were great champions and everyone who saw them on the ice thought they were lovers . |
| 3 | You saw them on the television — they never gave up hope , campaigning and running lonely vigils in the long nights . |
| 4 | We all buy goods on impulse sometimes — simply because we saw them on the shelf of the shop . |
| 5 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 6 | He saw them to the door but when they rode past a minute later , it was already shut . |
| 7 | It was Agnes who saw them to the door , and then into their car . |
| 8 | Hemmings nodded and Elaine pulled herself from her chair and saw them to the door . |
| 9 | They stood to leave and as an afterthought Cobalt got up , too , and saw them to the door . |
| 10 | Jenny saw them to the door , kissed Rachel . |
| 11 | In Themis she stressed the need for group rather than individual values in conducting life and saw them as the foundation of religion . |
| 12 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 13 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 14 | Tabitha saw them through the viewport : silhouettes of black on purple , scrambling up into the hangar and clinging , chittering , to the knobbly brown walls . |
| 15 | He came to the station and saw them into the carriage . |
| 16 | I saw them from the penthouse bar |
| 17 | I saw them from the window and called to them that I would tell the police who they were . |
| 18 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 21 | She saw them in the sky , just a small group of them , but they brought death , she knew that , as they flew steadily on through the calm of the summer morning . |
| 22 | I saw them in the field with the fallen stones . |
| 23 | You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point . |
| 24 | You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point . |
| 25 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 26 | So , if anybody saw me on the morning after , either hobbling up or down the stairs in St Swithin 's or leaping up and down ( very slowly ) , with an ‘ ooh , ah ’ , accompanied by much frantic rubbing of calf muscles , you know why . |
| 27 | He saw me on the telly . ’ |
| 28 | He saw me on the television the other weekend . |
| 29 | ‘ As soon as she saw me on the doorstep I felt she knew something . |
| 30 | ‘ You saw me at the tomb , ’ replied the man . |