I saw the girl in the company yesterday

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When someone say that " I saw the girl in the company yesterday ", How should I properly understand that sentence?
Does it mean yesterday he saw the girl who was a staff in the company or the company is the place where he saw the girl yesterday?
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It's ambiguous. Context would tell.
 
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So, I can understand the above sentence with either ways. Could you please give me two contexts for those ways ?
I appreciate the help!
 
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First give us the context in which you found that sentence, which does not sound natural to me.

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