Example sentences of "[noun sg] she see " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the southern side she saw the mandarin silks of the beginnings of civilisation and the huge courage of the Long March ; and on the other , to the north , the eternal silence of the greatest desolation . |
| 2 | As she undressed in the bedroom she saw her daughter had climbed into their big double bed . |
| 3 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 4 | As soon as Angela could think of anything except the pain of returning circulation she saw that they were outside the gate of a walled enclosure . |
| 5 | Knowing this , Anna has to decide whether or not to trust the stranger she sees approaching her farm . |
| 6 | ‘ Whatever it meant , you 're the last person I 'd share my thoughts and feelings with , ’ Maria flared , suddenly infuriated by the open scepticism she saw glinting in his eyes . |
| 7 | She marvelled at her friend and abhorred the expression of disgust she saw on Demian 's face . |
| 8 | This little side-play caused Peggy to stop and wonder , and it also gave Lizzie the opportunity to try to bring a smile to her daughter 's face and perhaps ease the tension she saw there . |
| 9 | Through the archway she saw Fernand jump down , open the door of the shed , then climb up again and drive in . |
| 10 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |
| 11 | As she stretched out an arm to switch off the light she saw , on the marble-topped bedside table , the book which had been open on the bedcover when she had first visited the house . |
| 12 | When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed . |
| 13 | As she drew near the fence she saw that the poor struggling captive was little more than a baby in size , although it was covered with its first soft coat of wool . |
| 14 | When she looked into the dark she saw corrupt towers and crumbling walls , high on the cliff , the rooting place , now , of gigantic trees . |
| 15 | She was immobile , cruelly transfixed , but in the very moment of immobility she saw most clearly a time when such moments need not be . |
| 16 | The rapist and child killer she sees as her friend , her traumatised father , her sad , sick mother or the police who are trying to trace her ? |
| 17 | Just as she reached forward with her car key she saw how the window had been forced and the catch freed to open the door . |
| 18 | Deeply as she sympathized with the woman 's condition she saw no reason why the husband should be made its victim . |
| 19 | When she got to her desk she saw that it would not do ; it was not an essay day but at that rate there would be no essay to write ; she had not done her week 's reading . |
| 20 | As she approached the reception desk she saw that the Cooks were already there , apparently having trouble understanding something the short balding clerk was trying to explain . |
| 21 | As Mum turned the trolley into the breakfast cereal aisle she saw Linda Paterson 's Mum and stopped to talk to her . |
| 22 | Looking out of the window she saw that the drizzle had become heavy rain . |
| 23 | Then in a tobacconist 's window she saw ‘ cigars ’ marked fourpence and thought that they looked something like the kind she had seen Chignell buying the other night . |
| 24 | Framed in the narrow window she saw the landscape , lit and brilliant as the background of a painting . |
| 25 | From the back window she saw him swaggering along the dock , a hand on his hip , throwing keys in the air with insouciant authority . |
| 26 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 27 | Of course that had been mostly created by the lack of money , but the instability she saw in Joe was n't that kind of lack , it was something she could n't put her finger on . |
| 28 | In , in the science museum she saw these really nice lighters and she comes back and my mum 's in the same room and she says , I nearly bought you a lighter . |
| 29 | There was a mirror above in whose reflection she saw Ted Tipper advance down the corridor and meet face to face with the police . |
| 30 | From Audrey Archer come impressions of the styles of dance she saw while on her world tour . |