Example sentences of "saw [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I saw them queuing for tomatoes , but the stall was still well-stocked the next day . |
| 2 | ‘ Waiting is the worst , ’ Rose said sympathetically as she saw them struggling with food . |
| 3 | The real danger of these rigs was hammered home recently during a small Open match which saw me ducking for shelter . |
| 4 | Day 3 saw me calling into Juba and Malakai before stopping overnight at Khartoum ( about seven hours . ) |
| 5 | His mouth dropped open when he saw me standing in front of him , carrying a gun . |
| 6 | I 'm intrigued by the acoustic/electric guitar I saw you using in Fleetwood Mac . |
| 7 | ‘ The atmosphere was pretty heated when I barged into the kitchen , ’ he replied , adding with a rueful grin , ‘ And I , like many others , saw you dancing with Luke earlier — that was pretty heated too . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw you lying in front of that bush . |
| 9 | I saw you talking to Anna . |
| 10 | Beryl went on : ‘ I saw you talking to Anna and that boy . |
| 11 | I saw you staring at Francis ; I could n't make it out . ’ |
| 12 | A patient saw her wandering in Atherton quarry . |
| 13 | And when he saw her copulating with Kemp … |
| 14 | She was what was known as ‘ a bad lot ’ and several times later I saw her standing in alleyways , always with a different man . |
| 15 | When the others saw her heading for home after the latest sports or debating session they would say " Look out . |
| 16 | ‘ Last night I saw her coming across London Bridge from Southwark , yet when I asked her where she had been , she replied no further than Cheapside . ’ |
| 17 | When Izz came , Tess saw her whispering to Marian . |
| 18 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |
| 19 | But once I saw him lumbering down Ward Street , you know , opposite , and he was here as well , messing around with the television . |
| 20 | His younger days saw him helping with cubs and scouts and he 's is so popular that already residents and storekeepers from the villages have started a fund to help him' |
| 21 | She peered out and saw him crawling on hands and knees along the ledge . |
| 22 | And then she saw him talking to Edward and Jean Powers and then someone had mislaid their glass and she had to find another and then there was the problem of the Taylors and old Mrs Phipson . |
| 23 | I saw him talking to Nubeneham . |
| 24 | About Peter Fleming , I saw him walking down Romney Road as I came here . ’ |
| 25 | They want to hear from anyone who saw him running through town , or boarding the Liverpool to Dover train . |
| 26 | It is a mild puzzle at first , to come across the young river Adour flowing from south to north down its valley , when you last saw it flowing from east to west into the ocean at Bayonne . |