Example sentences of "[adv] he see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he saw a gap in his prison bars and some light . |
| 2 | Turning around quickly he saw a shadow moving across the ceiling light . |
| 3 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 4 | Ten minutes later he saw a woman who was carrying three plates of meat and potatoes . |
| 5 | One morning not long ago he saw a fox walking past this same window . |
| 6 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 7 | Sometimes he saw a row of trees on the horizon . |
| 8 | Then he saw a policeman near him , so he began to sing and shout and make a lot of noise . |
| 9 | But then he saw a servant he had that day badly mutilated , also pointing . |
| 10 | Then he saw a stone fall , glance off a crag and hit Corti on the head . |
| 11 | And then he saw a face he recognized . |
| 12 | Frege , it should be stressed at once , interprets functions basically by analogy with machines , i.e. he sees a function as a kind of logical mechanism , such that if certain numerical constants or " arguments " are " fed " into it , it will produce certain values . |