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Example sentences of "see her " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot .
2	From the front door he could see her walking along the road past the graveyard with three of her friends , their heavy skirts swinging .
3	I could see her English neighbour shutting her front door in our faces , and yet all the same we left the two children there , rushing away after I 'd pinched their cheeks to make them cry so that she 'd have to come out to them .
4	Did you see her earlier ?
5	I could see her face very clearly in the wisp of cloud that was now making its way across the sky .
6	I try not to look , but you can see her boobies and that .
7	I can see her little gold necklace twinkling like a star round her neck .
8	‘ A woman had taken some children playing in the road up to a high room to ‘ see her puppies . ’
9	‘ Does she see her ghost ? ’
10	In the semi-darkness Mark could see her movements .
11	He could see her lip trembling and hoped she would not cry in public again .
12	He did not even see her face .
13	Leo , you must tell her that it is Doctor 's Orders that she must not look after her father any more — that it is too much for her — that she need not even see her father until she is quite well enough , and the doctor has himself offered to find a suitable place , so that she will know her father will be well looked after .
14	Marie moved forward so that he could see her better .
15	The staff , too , could see her moves to stroke the dog and finally let me approach her .
16	From the window , she could see her friend , Florence Ames , filling the freshly-turned beds with rows of small green plants from the boxes by her side .
17	We may soon see her own range of fashions .
18	Zoya rattled on about the appalling queue , and some interesting gossip she 'd picked up there , but Anna cut her short , saying she was busy and would see her later .
19	I could never see her thick black tuft of pubic hair without longing to go with my father into that dark Moravian pine forest , stretching all the way from the Carpathians , which surrounded our home .
20	And I can see her teeth … she 's laughing . ’
21	I could see her thinking , ‘ We ca n't send this one on a book tour . ’
22	She looked away so that Trent would n't see her misery : ‘ He told me not to tell anyone . ’
23	It was her habit to drop in and see her daughter most mornings , and to take tea and chatter , a habit that John Carter frowned upon , as it interrupted Rhoda in her household duties .
24	You should see her portfolio . ’
25	Andrew Carnegie , millionaire-to-be , believed his ‘ optimistic nature ’ and wit ‘ must have been inherited ’ from his ‘ delightful old masquerading grandfather ; ’ while the future feminist Hannah Mitchell could see her own dogged persistence in the extraordinary working energy of the octogenarian grandmother who was ‘ the delight and terror of my young days ’
26	He could not see her hair , which was wound tightly into a turban of peacock-feathered painted silk , low on her brow .
27	Behind this graceful form Martha could see her grandmother in a state of strange tension , arms folded and brows contracted in the effort of masking her feelings .
28	Not to friendship ; each knew that the other would see her dead without a qualm ; but to respect and a queer , unstated confederacy .
29	I want you to note that I am not singing just ‘ Take my back , because it is my best feature ’ ( in the mirror we could see her beautiful strong back in the low cut of the dress , and of course we could see ourselves too ) .
30	This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room .