Example sentences of "saw [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most moving things of the whole voyage was when I saw Uskair loom out of the mist . |
| 2 | When he saw Duclos striding back across the compound dragging a young Annamese boy behind him , he smiled quietly to himself , stepped back into his bedroom and began fumbling with the buttons of his silk shirt . |
| 3 | This time she saw pebbles laid out over the whole of the surface , more or less evenly spaced . |
| 4 | When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that . |
| 5 | Behind Kragan , Adam saw Kaas come back into the room . |
| 6 | I saw Falconer go up to the top of the tower . |
| 7 | As he did so , he saw Hasan walk out from the back kitchen . |
| 8 | It was almost time for Compline when Cadfael came from the gardens after his last round of the evening , and saw horsemen riding in at the gate . |
| 9 | But a short time later Michael saw Dale walk out onto the balcony to play with his toys . |
| 10 | And she saw Adam start up from the Starr grass . |
| 11 | The next thing , he saw Lee looking out of the window . |
| 12 | Then she saw Sophia go over to the statue of the Virgin Mary . |
| 13 | As she watched , Daisy saw Sophia come out into the garden with Faustina in her arms . |
| 14 | I shrank back into the shadows of the alley and saw people passing by on the sidewalk . |
| 15 | I saw people springing up from the ground and letting down ropes out of the sky , boarding red buses , jabbering in English . |
| 16 | I saw people running down from the house , I heard some shots , but that was all . |
| 17 | The two men were standing on the balcony outside James 's flat when they saw smoke billowing out of the 75-year-old woman 's home below . |
| 18 | Marx in the notebooks is opposed to McLennan , Maine , Phear , and other who disagreed with Morgan over the commonality of the gens , principally because they saw society growing out of the individual monogamous family with its private property . |
| 19 | Then as she looked she saw Kate getting out of the back . |
| 20 | The 1990s saw Japan take over from the US as the world 's dominant power . |
| 21 | I explained rapidly about the pillbox and sure enough we saw Cawthorne set out from the farmhouse , walking diagonally across the Paddock towards the fence . |
| 22 | At first I though she had pissed herself , then I saw flowers tumble out of the sky and hit the water ahead of me like some strange rain . |
| 23 | I saw Flora coming on to the terrace . |
| 24 | Blunt , coming up behind him and hauling back on the control column to get his plane over the hedge , saw Peacock sliding out of the sky and tried to turn inside him . |
| 25 | As I waited in the porch with the bridesmaids , I saw Shanti get out of the car , take her father 's arm , and walk towards us . |
| 26 | At the same time , out of the comer of his eye , he saw Tony coming out of the ticket-booth . |
| 27 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 28 | While Paris 's tenure saw events swallowed up by the huge bicentenary celebrations , West Berlin 's year stimulated an extraordinary range of artistic events , concentrated in the summer months . |