Example sentences of "saw [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw Bernard outside the American University Hospital . |
| 2 | He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden . |
| 3 | When I saw Jekub for the first time I thought , OK , this is what he used . ’ |
| 4 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 5 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
| 6 | I saw Joseph by the back door , caught hold of the lamp he was carrying , and ran with it to the gate . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw Celia on the other side of the road and ran across to her . |
| 8 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw Siena for the first time in Autumn , ’ said Tom Tedder , with a catch in his voice . |
| 10 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 11 | He was on the pavement , waiting , when he saw Volkov on the opposite side of the road . |
| 12 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 13 | Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 . |
| 14 | He has been wanted by a string of clubs , including Manchester United , who last season saw Pearce as the final piece in a title jigsaw . |
| 15 | The result : Des was airlifted out of the Gulf in mid-May and , on May 29 , at Arden Grange International Quarantine Kennels in Albourne , Sussex , Dave saw Des for the first time since March 23 . |
| 16 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 17 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 18 | This is the arrangement formalized in Edward 's territorial reordering of 1473–5 , which saw Lancashire as the northern end of a Stanley power bloc stretching through Cheshire into north Wales , rather than as one more component in Gloucester 's northern hegemony . |
| 19 | She smoothed a weary hand across her eyes and then looked up and saw Luke over the far side of the room , gazing at her with impenetrable eyes . |