I was sitting in a restaurant at the Metropolitan Art Museum in New  
York, looking out the window for Cleopatra's Needle, and not being  
able to see it, I said to my friend, "But I saw it walking in."  (It  
was behind a post and couldn't be seen from where we were sitting.)
What strikes me here is that what I said was perfectly natural;  
indeed, I can hardly imagine having said it any other way.  And I'm  
sure I did not pause or modify pitch between "it" and "walking."
Comments?

Ed S

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