Example sentences of "we saw [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw her jump from the roof and fall to her death . |
| 2 | After a while , sitting in the car , we saw her stand for a few minutes first on one of the Howes , then on another , still and with arms raised . |
| 3 | I was down the market with this other girl , and we saw her mum there . |
| 4 | We saw her doll , always with her on the arm of the chair , but Theresa was never there . |
| 5 | Lexico-syntactic ambiguity : We saw her duck . |
| 6 | We saw her room first . |
| 7 | ‘ Chrissie was supposed to be enrolling for a teachers ’ training course all we saw her doing was peeling potatoes and with her hands in the sink for six weeks . |
| 8 | This time we really thought we had lost her , but some time later we saw her crawl underneath my Portakabin . |
| 9 | I think we all felt a little like Dave as we saw his wife and two sons on the quay and met many of his friends . |
| 10 | We saw his sledge just in front of you on the night before the storm . ’ |
| 11 | We saw his glory , the glory which he received as the Father 's only Son . |
| 12 | ‘ We saw his importance by his absence against Norway . ’ |
| 13 | Although it hardly seemed fair racing a man at least 15 years our senior , who could resist going just a little faster every time we saw his face contorted with exertion , glaring up at us like Charles Laughton in Mutiny On The Bounty ? |
| 14 | They reached the surgery door at the same time as the strange little group and , as they ushered their client in , he said , ‘ We were just going to Sheldrake and Woodall when we saw your plate on Broom House gate . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We were just passing and we saw your plate on the gate , ’ said the tall elder one , ‘ and we thought it might be a good idea to — well , try you out . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We saw your gun . ’ |
| 17 | We saw our chance , and hastily we packed up and prepared for the long trek back the way we had come , to the Youth Hostel . |
| 18 | I do n't think gay men changed their habits because of advertisements ; we did so , some of us , because we saw our friends dying of it and the horrible effect that it has . |
| 19 | But we had another few hundred feet to manage before we saw our goal . |
| 20 | Our policy-making seemed stuck in a time warp in which we saw our role as offering help to a disadvantaged majority against a privileged minority — seemingly unaware that income is no longer distributed in a pattern that is pyramidal , but is egg-shaped . |
| 21 | Erm it it varied really w we saw our role in general as being to support and and facilitate the activities that they wanted to get involved |