Example sentences of "[coord] he see " in BNC.
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1 | He did n't tell her it broke his heart every time the Argentines hurt a horse or he saw a terrified stray dog racing by the side of the road . |
2 | He was a scientific adventurer , for whom every discovery revealed immediate new possibilities ; and he saw no end to his work . |
3 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
4 | She stood on the embankment breathing in gulps of air as he stood awkwardly by her , then fumbled for a handkerchief and he saw that she was crying . |
5 | Moira went over to her friends and he saw them looking back at him and sniggering . |
6 | But unknown to the gunman , a little boy had been stealing a ride on the bar under the carriage , and he saw it all . |
7 | The theatre director Schuh was there and he saw me sitting by myself during the interval . |
8 | He was slightly behind on the reservation with Emma and he saw his wife and children land in the road . |
9 | A swell lifted him and he saw men in the cockpit . |
10 | George turned and looked in surprise at the source of the murmured comment ; and he saw Michael Bridges close beside him , surprised because he 'd forgotten he was there . |
11 | My husband was in the fields and he saw them blow up our new house . |
12 | Another dark cloud covered the sun , and he saw another , much lower with rain like a grey curtain below it , approaching rapidly from the north . |
13 | He looked up and he saw two people walking or appearing to walk away from him down the white road of the tunnel and out across the green hills . |
14 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
15 | We reached the Bedford Square House and he saw me up the steps . |
16 | The scales fell from his eyes and he saw that over many long years of prehistory , all trackways were in straight lines marked out by experts on a sighting system . |
17 | Otherwise no-one troubled him and he saw no one but shared his strange corner of the forest with the beasts of the forest . |
18 | the chief room of the place , and he saw |
19 | and he saw that the first flame |
20 | And he saw only some of it . |
21 | He had it nocked , and the hemp half drawn back when an extra flare lit the sky , and he saw how close the man was to firing , and how ill he looked , and how young he was : a hollow-faced boy , defending the walls of Famagusta . |
22 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
23 | Only four horses were entered for the five furlong race , and he saw Bellevin beaten by Winkfield Pride . |
24 | And finally , that afternoon in the graveyard , he knew the door had slammed on his life and the door was one of those big silver refrigerator doors and he saw his life hanging behind that door like meat . |
25 | He smelt the scents eagerly gazed , fascinated , at the henna-stained feet and palms of the women and children , listened to the cries of the muezzin and the harsh guttural shouts in a language he could not understand — and he saw , he thought , why Jean-Paul was so drawn to Algeria . |
26 | He stopped making excuses for him ; he let his loyalty and his trust slip aside , and he saw Jean-Paul clear . |
27 | Hearing the noise of the car she turned and he saw a peaked , delicate face framed with red-gold hair . |
28 | She turned towards him , her head propped on her hand , and he saw the strong afternoon light shafting with gold the cropped brightly dyed hair . |
29 | Twice-married Mr Young , 67 , has in the past said the relationship was strong and he saw no reason to change it . |
30 | And he saw the work of an old favourite of his from the London days , J Maris , who had some beautiful things on show . |