Example sentences of "saw [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another mile or so , Ellwood saw them pull off into the gated driveway of a hotel . |
| 2 | We had an old inspector , a Manx man , he used to laugh when he saw them coming in with the blood pouring down their heads , fighting and everything . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
| 5 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 6 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 7 | It was well after midnight , getting on for one o'clock , when I went to open the bedroom window , and saw someone coming up through the garden from the bay . ’ |
| 8 | He saw himself look back along the train and then remember the first premonition . |
| 9 | A bit later on , I saw you touring round with the army recruiting drive , giving demonstration bouts . |
| 10 | ‘ She says … she saw you go up to the belvedere … and one of her golf-clubs is missing … |
| 11 | I saw you coming back from the communion rails , with your eyes down and your hands folded , as if you were n't putrid inside , but I know . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I saw something moving about in the garden . ’ |
| 13 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 14 | I often saw him wandering about in the fields and lanes or fishing in quiet reaches of the river when he should have been in school . |
| 15 | At a speed that neither could match Louisa and Horrocks saw him hasten back down the lake . |
| 16 | She saw him jumping out of the door and the girl shooting him . |
| 17 | I saw him go up to the house- ’ |
| 18 | You say you saw him go up to the house and take something ? |
| 19 | Susan saw him come out of the door and start back down the track , anger and anxiety making him push his pace . |
| 20 | Charlotte saw him glance out through the window and clench his teeth before turning back to face Ursula . |
| 21 | His rich vein of form has come after a winter which saw him left out of the West Indies World Cup team … their loss has been Gloucestershire 's gain . |
| 22 | After a short while she saw him emerge on to the quayside , a tall , lean man with the kind of rangy , loose-limbed walk which drew admiring glances from any female within range . |
| 23 | Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively . |
| 24 | We saw him look out of the window once or twice . ’ |
| 25 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 26 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 27 | A moment later , between the nut-trees , they saw him running off into the field . |
| 28 | They saw it go out of the valley down towards Keswick . |
| 29 | Minutes later eyewitnesses saw it spiral out of the sky and crash just thirty yards from the firm 's buildings . |
| 30 | She saw us coming out of the restaurant and … . ’ |