Example sentences of "[noun] she saw a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her surprise , he turned the wheel towards the channel leading to the island , and as they motored slowly past one of the enormous posts she saw a name-plate on it . |
| 2 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 3 | At a turn in the corridor she saw a picture she remembered , a ship at sea , and under the waves a chariot racing from a previous painting . |
| 4 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw a man in a white coat floundering through the snow towards them , and in some intuitive way this increased her anxiety to be off . |
| 5 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 6 | Mrs Swales told the court she saw a lot of shouting and arguing , but she did not intervene or try to get involved . |
| 7 | When she arrived at the theatre that night she saw a note pinned up at the stage door stating that it had come to the management 's notice that a Girl had been flying , which was forbidden ! |
| 8 | Through a half-open door she saw a glimmer of white and stiffened , nauseated , as she saw Melanie over Penry 's shoulder , her face held up to his in impassioned invitation . |
| 9 | Turning the next corner she saw a hole in the roof , where the sunlight was streaming in . |
| 10 | Now that his face had regained its shape she saw a seriousness in it which implied a steadiness she liked . |
| 11 | Opening the door a crack she saw a man in a clerical collar and a woman beside him . |
| 12 | Then Kier tells us about the time she saw a UFO . |
| 13 | Through the ground-floor window of one house she saw a room lined with dusty books . |