Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [that] she [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his distress he saw that she was trembling slightly . |
| 2 | As the pair reached the bottom he saw that she was , as Eleanor had said , very thin , but he noticed the same rhythm in her movements as she walked across the cove . |
| 3 | ‘ Your steak 's all right ? ’ he enquired courteously , when at one point he observed that she was n't making much headway with it . |
| 4 | His glance travelled over the girl 's face and the visible parts of her upper body , and with another pang of compassion he saw that she was woefully thin . |
| 5 | But in his heart he sensed that she was lonely and ill at ease . |
| 6 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |