Example sentences of "she [adv] saw it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember . |
| 2 | But , years later , Liz found herself visiting the Freud museum in Berggasse in Vienna , and there she suddenly saw it all — the red walls , the figurines , and , perhaps most distinctively , the predominance of red carpet-cushions , the characteristic mixture of Persian geometric patterns on floor and couch — a Jewish mixture , a Viennese mixture , a Freudian mixture ? |
| 3 | To her enormous relief she suddenly saw it running down the passage , she leant against the wall , how tiresome of that spider to come to her when it might have gone to anyone else . |
| 4 | The agency took half her pay before she ever saw it , some of it in commissions for her bookings , the rest to pay her share of the rent on the miserable flat she shared with Trish and two other girls . |
| 5 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 6 | Well , for instance , that she lived in a in an old vicarage , cos her husband had been a a , no a tri , priest in the Church of England and er we her house was haunted and she was telling us stories and sh she quite often saw the ghost , she was never worried , she never cos it never frightened her it was n't vicious or anything like that and she often saw it quite matter of fact . |
| 7 | Gabriel herself had not had a happy family life , but a merciful providence , as she now saw it , had orphaned her early . |
| 8 | And she never saw it again … alive . |
| 9 | But somehow she never saw it until afterwards … |
| 10 | that combine , the she just trod on it but she never saw it ! |