Example sentences of "he saw [that] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Then he saw that he was looking at the puzzled , desperate face of Ho Chan .
2 It was only by craning his neck to a painful degree that he saw that he was suspended in mid-air , a foot or so above the sea .
3 When he turned , he saw that he was backed up to a young man with crinkly hair and a baggy silk suit , sleeves turned back to mid-forearm .
4 To his distress he saw that she was trembling slightly .
5 Dimly he saw that she was holding something , but he did not realize what it was until she spoke again .
6 He saw that she was weeping , not for her father but for herself , for the child she had been .
7 He saw that she was hurt .
8 She stood on the embankment breathing in gulps of air as he stood awkwardly by her , then fumbled for a handkerchief and he saw that she was crying .
9 When the angel came to the rock he saw that it was covered by a lovely green creeping plant .
10 As he raised it to his lips he saw that it was brimming with drowned black insects .
11 Turning it over , he saw that it was sealed up , and broke it open .
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